The Modern Crisis (edition 1987)

by Murray Bookchin

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A treatise on social ecology. "Ecological ethicsnot based on self-interest." --Kingston Whig-Standard"A worthwhile read. Bookchin is the prophet of the green revolution."--Libertarian Labor Review

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Title:	The Modern Crisis
Authors:	Murray Bookchin
Info:	New Society Publishers (1987), Edition: 2 Revised, Paperback, 167 pages
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Probably my favorite Bookchin writings. In the past I've found him to be a bit too focused on the past and not focused enough on laying out his thoughts about the present and future, but this group of essays does a better job in getting that across. They are much easier to follow than other essays and books by him that I've read. Workers and the Peace Movement was my favorite essay, while An Appeal for Social and Ecological Sanity was the scariest. These were all written in the '80s yet wring as true today as they did back then (

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A treatise on social ecology. "Ecological ethicsnot based on self-interest." --Kingston Whig-Standard"A worthwhile read. Bookchin is the prophet of the green revolution."--Libertarian Labor Review

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Here, "the prophet of the green revolution" identifies social ecology as an alternative to society's head-on collision with disaster. Murray Bookchin exposes the underpinnings of consumerism and contrasts the destructive reality of a market economy with the potential for social and ecological sanity offered by a moral economy.

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