!anarchy !anarchisem #Bookchin and #Marx
Today, we can only look back at Bookchin’s injunction and wonder whether the need for #Marxism has in fact been overcome by #capitalism itself, and if so, whether this has been desirable. After all, coal and steel remain the basis of industrial technology, while the periodic crises Bookchin consigned to a bygone era have returned with a vengeance. Bookchin himself now belongs to the very past he implored his readers to shed for the sake of the #future. Indeed, if there is today no future to speak of, it is because the future itself belongs to the past, and it is to the past we must turn if we wish to go beyond the present.
Reid Kotlas from the 2016 Annual Gathering - http://social-ecology.org/wp/2016/09/bookchin-marx-r-kotlas/