> When I was writing my MA on Murray Bookchin, I met ten to fifteen Bay Area
> ecoMarxists who had started their leftward and greenward trajectory with
> Bookchin... a few of them used the "grew out of" kind of language, though
> more often it was "grew dissatisfied with, sought out other things and
> landed in a variety of Western Marxism." Most retained real affection of
> their anarchist phase and appreciation of what they learned but did see it
> as a moment in a process.
Ah. One of the people who told me this had also studied with Bookchin in the Bay Area. I wonder if this is a major source of such moves.
Bookchin himself basically broke with anarchism late in life, although I sense that his line was something like "I didn't leave US anarchism, it left me."
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