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30 july 2006 burlington , vermont 20th / 21st-century philosophy new york city , new york anarchist municipalism , communalism communism ; later , social ecology , libertarian aristotle school , karl polanyi , erwin anton gutkind , baruch spinoza , denis diderot , frankfurt 180px social socialism , ethics , environmental sustainability , conservationism , history hierarchy of popular revolutionary movements , dialectics , post-scarcity anarchism , libertarian social naturalism ecology , communalism , libertarian municipalism , dialectical january 14 , 1921 murray bookchin.jpg murray bookchin
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murray bookchin

murray bookchin -lrb- january 14 , 1921 -- july 30 , 2006 -rrb- was an american anarchist and libertarian socialist author , orator , historian , and political theoretician .
a pioneer in the ecology movement , bookchin initiated the critical theory of social ecology within anarchist , libertarian socialist , and ecological thought .
he was the author of two dozen books covering topics in politics , philosophy , history , urban affairs , and ecology .
among the most important were `` our synthetic environment '' , `` post-scarcity anarchism , '' and '' '' .
in the late 1990s he became disenchanted with the increasingly apolitical lifestylism of the contemporary anarchist movement -lrb- see : lifestyle anarchism -rrb- and stopped referring to himself as an anarchist .
instead , he founded his own libertarian socialist ideology called communalism .
bookchin was an anti-capitalist and vocal advocate of the decentralisation of society along ecological and democratic lines .
his writings on libertarian municipalism , a theory of face-to-face , assembly democracy , had an influence on the green movement and anti-capitalist direct action groups such as reclaim the streets , as well as the democratic confederalism of rojava .
