Murray BookchinThinkers

Capitalism is today a parasite on the future, a parasite that survives on the technology and resources of freedom. It is organized not around scarcity, but around abundance.

Capitalism is inherently and inescapably the enemy of environmentalism. Attempts to 'green' it, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth. It can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing.

The City is necessarily an antithesis to the land. They are a break in the solidity of agrarian conditions, a germ of negation in the agrarian community.

Environmentalism is inherently and inescapably the enemy of capitalism. Attempts to 'green' it, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth. It can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing.

The Megalopolis is an active force in social dissociation and psychic dissolution. It is the negation of the city as an arena of close human proximity and palpable cultural tradition, and as a means of collecting creative human energies. b191 the megalopolis is an active force in social dissociation and psychic dissolution. It is the negation of the city as an arena of close human proximity and palpable cultural tradition, and as a means of collecting creative human energies. Ibid. Bookchin, Murray (1921-).

Scarcity is a phenomenon which, during marx's time, was the system around which commodity relations were organized. Scarcity had to be endured. Today it has to be enforced.