Listen, Marxist! - Murray Bookchin

I like this article. Much in it is true. My main gripe is that Bookchin is not a Marxist and therefore fails to understand how profoundly the 20th century Marxists failed to live up to the Marxist standards for socialism. His analysis of classes is also unsurprisingly lacking:

At a time when bourgeois society itself is in the process of disintegrating all the social classes that once gave it stability, we hear the hollow demands for a "class line.

Bourgeois society has always disintegrated the social classes of feudalism, but only to transform them into proletariat and bourgeoisie. This duality is the basis of capitalism, and it is naive and borderline incoherent to imagine that it has gone away. Of course capitalism still requires labor and owners of capital, and of course these roles are still taken up by different groups. Also, what "stability" is he talking about? There is nothing "stabilizing" about the antagonism between classes.

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