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Left Green Network
The Left Green Network (LGN) was an ecosocialist organization created by Murray Bookchin and Howie Hawkins. History In 1984, members of the Institute for Social Ecology, which Bookchin directed, participated in the "Founding Conference of a National Green Politics Organization", which was History of the Green Party of the United States, a precursor to the Green Party of the United States, in order to oppose the top-down creation of a national party. The anti-party attendees won, and the proto-Greens instead created many local Green Committees of Correspondence (GCoC). In 1987, Bookchin spoke at the National Green Gathering, where he denounced Earth First! and Dave Foreman as reactionary politics, social reactionaries for opposing aid to starving people. In 1988, Bookchin and Hawkins founded LGN as a radical alternative to liberalism in the US Green movement, based around the principles of Social ecology (Bookchin), social ecology and libertarian municipalism. About 50 people atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin (; January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006) was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher. Influenced by G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Peter Kropotkin, he was a pioneer in the environmental movement. Bookchin formulated and developed the theory of social ecology and urban planning within anarchist, libertarian socialist, and ecological thought. He was the author of two dozen books covering topics in politics, philosophy, history, urban affairs, and social ecology. Among the most important were ''Our Synthetic Environment'' (1962), '' Post-Scarcity Anarchism'' (1971), '' The Ecology of Freedom'' (1982), and ''Urbanization Without Cities'' (1987). In the late 1990s, he became disenchanted with what he saw as an increasingly apolitical " lifestylism" of the contemporary anarchist movement, stopped referring to himself as an anarchist, and founded his own libertarian socialist ideology called " communalism", which seeks to reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |