Murray Bookchin Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• My concern is to develop a North American type of anarchism that comes out of the American tradition, or that at least can be communicated to Americans and that takes into consideration that Americans are not any longer people of European background.

  Murray Bookchin

  People, Tradition, Consideration

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

• I don't feel the individualist anarchists, particularly in the American tradition, including the Transcendental tradition of New England, in any way deserve the derogatory comments that are often made about them by the left. When one gets down to it ultimately, my anarcho-communism stems from a commitment to true individuality. My attempt to recover the power and the right of the individual to control his or her life and destiny is the basis to my anarcho-communism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Commitment, Destiny, Individuality

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

• New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont.

  Murray Bookchin

  Strong, United States, Vermont

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

• What I'd like to see developing is an American radicalism, libertarian in character, which relies, however weak, faint, and even mythic these traditions may be, on the American libertarian tradition. I don't mean right-wing libertarianism obviously.

  Murray Bookchin

  Character, Mean, Wings

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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