--- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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