num_pages: 86
description: 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."
language: English
title: Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm
titlecomplete: Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm
genres: Politics, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Ecology, Economics, Anarchism, Activism, Theory, Sociology
ratings_count: 425
publisher: AK Press