Leftist Reading: Post-Scarcity Anarchism Part 2

Episode 122:This week we’re continuing with Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin.You can find the book here:https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book[Part 1]Post-Scarcity Anarchism- Preconditions And Possibilities- The Redemptive Dialectic- Spontaneity and Utopia[Part 2 - This Week]-Prospect - 0:31Ecology and Revolutionary Thought - 15:09[Part 3 - 4]Ecology and Revolutionary Thought[Part 5 - 8]Towards a Liberatory Technology[Part 9 - 11]The Forms of Freedom[Part 12 - 16]Listen, Marxist!Footnotes:18) 13:26The above lines were written in 1966. Since then, we have seen the graffiti on the walls of Paris, during the May–June revolution: “All power to the imagination”; “I take my desires to be reality, because I believe in the reality of my desires”; “Never work”; “The more I make love, the more I want to make revolution”; “Life without dead times”; “The more you consume, the less you live”; “Culture is the inversion of life”; “One does not buy happiness, one steals it”; “Society is a carnivorous flower.” These are not graffiti, they are a program for life and desire.Citations:7) 16:54Abraham H. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being (Van Nostrand; New York, 1962), p. viii. 8) 17:54Quoted in Angus M. Woodbury, Principles of General Ecology (Blakiston; New York, 1954), p. 4.