Murray Bookchin and the Allure of Primitivism (A6)
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Size: 4.1 x 5.8
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ISBN: 9781914567827
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Author: Brian Morris
Page count: 68
Primitivists often romanticise hunter-gatherer societies as living in a paradise created by the wholesale rejection of civilisation — agriculture, technology, language, art and, at its most extreme, even conceptual thought itself. Through Murray Bookchin’s lens, Brian Morris exposes this appeal as ill-informed anthropological fantasy, offering no practical alternative to the devastating human and ecological impact of global capitalism and authoritarian power structures. Bookchin, Morris argues, charted a middle path whilst recognising the lessons we can learn from the egalitarianism of many tribal societies. Rather than retreating to an imagined stone age Eden, he embraced humanity’s paradox—our instinctual connection to nature alongside our need for social and cultural bonds—and advocated building a decentralised, ecological socialism for the benefit of all.
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