Murray Bookchin, PER UNA SOCIETÀ ECOLOGICA, 2016

Is there really no remedy for this phenomenon called “civilization” which appears to be on the verge of destroying a natural world formed in millions of years of organic evolution? Certainly the solutions must be found far from the prevailing instrumental reason, which responds to the logic of domination over nature rooted in that dominion of man over man who has shaped both our social structure and our vision of nature. In fact, Bookchin shows how it was the birth of hierarchical society that made humanity’s relations with nature increasingly aggressive, in a perverse crescendo culminating in the savage dispossession made by capitalism and its crazy model of infinite growth in a finite world. The remedies must then be sought in non-hierarchical values ​​and methods capable of building a social space in balance with its ecosystem and a community fabric based on cooperation and not on competition, on redistribution and not on accumulation, interdependence and not overpowering .

Murray Bookchin (New York, 1921 – Burlington 2006) has been one of the most listened voices of the American counterculture since the 1960s and one of the pioneers of the international ecological movement.