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Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism an Unbridgeable Chasm
Bookchin, Murray
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14280442/Murray-Bookchin-Social-Anarchism-or-Lifestyle-Anarchism-an-Unbridgeable-ChasmDate Written: 1995-06-01 Year Published: 1995 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX16680 For some two centuries, anarchism -- a very ecumenical body of anti-authoritarian ideas -- developed in the tension between two basically contradictory tendencies: a personalistic commitment to individual autonomy and a collectivist commitment to social freedom. These tendencies have by no means been reconciled in the history of libertarian thought. Indeed, for much of the last century, they simply coexisted within anarchism as a minimalist credo of opposition tothe State rather than as a maximalist credo that articulated the kind of new society that had to becreated in its place. Subject Headings |