[lbo-talk] Murray Bookchin RIP

[B.]

I was out of town and away from email for awhile, so
when I got back and saw the notice about Bookchin's
death it hit me me pretty hard. I've always been an
admirer of Bookchin. Even when I disagreed with him on
finer points I've felt a broad sympathy for his ideas,
which evolved over time. 

To Proudhon's famous "Property is theft" maxim he
said: "[T]he means of life must be taken for what they
literally are: the means without which life is
impossible. To deny them to people is more than
'theft'... it is outright homicide."

-B.

Doug Henwood wrote:
> [thanks to Michael Pug]
>
> Murray Bookchin RIP
>
> BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Murray Bookchin, an early
proponent of what he described as social ecology, died
at home early Sunday at the age of 85.
>
> He was surrounded by family when he died of heart
failure at home, said his daughter, Debbie Bookchin.
>
> Murray Bookchin long was a proponent of left-leaning
libertarian ideas and was among the first people in
the early 1960s to promote the then-emerging field of
ecology into political debate.