Remaking Society
by Murray Bookchin
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According to Murray Bookchin, a humane solution to the climate crisis will require replacing industrial capitalism with an egalitarian, ecological society; decentralized democratic communities; and sustainable technologies. Drawing on rich traditions of ecological science, anthropology, history, utopian philosophy, and ethics,   Remaking Society  offers a coherent framework for social and ecological reconstruction. This innovative work on nature and society provides readers with show more clear strategies for averting disaster. In their foreword to this new edition of  Remaking Society, Marina Sitrin and Debbie Bookchin show that remaking is a continuing project: “If hierarchy has deeply wounded our relationships with each other and the natural world, capitalism has plunged a knife that much more deeply into the wound. Capitalism, [Bookchin] believes, has distorted every aspect of political, social, and even personal life.… Our challenge then is to build movements everywhere that will preserve and expand our innate creativity and eradicate any tendencies toward hierarchy, status, or other forms of domination.” show lessTags
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I'm oversimplifying things, but this book was 90% historical fiction ("the past was so great, especially participatory democracy (if you were a white, male property owner)) and 10% utopian novel. In the tiny amount of pages he spent talking about the future he desires he never really explained how to get there besides education, which at this point in time just doesn't seem like enough. He also grossly misunderstands and falsely defines biocentrism
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- 304.2 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Factors affecting social behavior Human ecology
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