Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm

This book asks--and tries to answer--several basic questions that affect all Leftists today. Will anarchism remain a revolutionary social movement or become a chic boutique lifestyle subculture? Will its primary goals be the complete transformation of a hierarchical, class, and irrational society into a libertarian communist one? Or will it become an ideology focused on personal well-being, spiritual redemption, and self-realization within the existing society?
In an era of privatism, kicks, introversion, and post-modernist nihilism, Murray Bookchin forcefully examines the growing nihilistic trends that threaten to undermine the revolutionary tradition of anarchism and co-opt its fragments into a harmless personalistic, yuppie ideology of social accommodation that presents no threat to the existing powers that be. Includes the essay, "The Left That Was."

Author: Murray Bookchin

Publisher: AK Press

Publication Date: Jul 01, 2001

Number of Pages: 86 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 187317683X

ISBN-13: 9781873176832