Bookchin On Bookchin Documentary (promotional clip)

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"Bookchin on Bookchin" is an independent feature-length documentary about the life and times of American political thinker Murray Bookchin who made history as the founder of the social ecology movement. Our aim is to make a film that deeply explores the influences and experiences that have helped shape one of the most unique and distinctive voices in modern political thinking. The documentary will explore the development of Murray's politics through his personal experiences, drawing off hours and hours of filming. We have been granted unparalleled access to #Bookchin, including exclusive interview footage at his home in Vermont and his final public appearance in Montreal. Murray was reticent to engage in anything that smacked of the personality cult but his biography covers key points in the development of radical politics and sets in context the "Social Ecology" of his later life.
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"Perhaps the most compelling real fact that radicals in our era have not adequately faced is the fact that capitalism today has become a society, not only an economy" Bookchin 1991.
Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was a pioneer of the ecology movement, and was a significant social theorist on the Left throughout his life. He was an anti-capitalist and an advocate for the decentralization of society along ecological and democratic lines. He called for alternative energies and wrote prophetically about pesticides, cancer and obesity. His writing on anarchism, especially his 1971 book Post-Scarcity Anarchism, lifted and sustained the movement from the 19th century into the 21st century.
His life paralleled major American and international events, such as the Great Depression, World War II, the Vietnam War and the counterculture movement, but this film also captures more personal and intimate reflections on family life.
In 2006 Bookchin died after a long and active life as a revolutionary, being deeply involved in the labor movement, in the civil rights movement, in urban activism, and in Green politics. In 1974 he co-founded the Institute for Social Ecology. In 1992 the British newspaper The Independent, referred to him as ''the foremost Green philosopher of the age.'' It called his 1982 book The Ecology of Freedom one of the ''classic statements of contemporary anarchism.''
His books include Our Synthetic Environment, The Spanish Anarchists, Towards an Ecological Society, The Ecology of Freedom and The Limits of the City.
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