Murray Bookchin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Murray Bookchin

American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1921

Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York, United States

Date of Death: 30-Jul-2006

Profession: writer, politician, historian, university teacher, sociologist, philosopher, ecologist, peace activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006) was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher.
A pioneer in the ecology movement, Bookchin formulated and developed the theory of social ecology and urban planning, 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 (1962), Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971), The Ecology of Freedom (1982) and Urbanization Without Cities (1987).
In the late 1990s he became disenchanted with what he saw as an increasingly apolitical "lifestylism" of the contemporary anarchist movement, stopped referring to himself as an anarchist, and founded his own libertarian socialist ideology called Communalism, which seeks to reconcile Marxist and anarchist thought.Bookchin was a prominent anti-capitalist and advocate of social decentralisation along ecological and democratic lines.
His ideas have influenced social movements since the 1960s, including the New Left, the anti-nuclear movement, the anti-globalization movement, Occupy Wall Street, and more recently, the democratic confederalism of Rojava.
He was a central figure in the American green movement and the Burlington Greens.