Good stuff. A lot of what he speaks of still hits home even today.

He answers challenging questions directly and forthrightly. He presents alternative courses of action to accompany his well-reasoned criticisms. He is the real most interesting man in the world.

Thank you so much for collecting and posting these videos. Bookchin is an inspiration.

The situation with the indigenous communities in Nicaragua under the Sandinista government is similar to today's situation of the Syrian Kurdish YPG/YPJ . I consider Mr. Bookchin a visionary.

Thanks for the upload

Thanks for uploading this.

Man Bookchin was so ballsy. My respects, he rocks.

I see two critical questions that spills into many of Bookchin's other KZfaq video presentations~for example "communitarianism". 1. WHY did Walther Reuther settle for enhanced benefits~tied to enhanced labor productivity ("class collaboration") instead of pursuing "class warfare" that might have resulted in very different outcomes? 2. WHY did the auto workers (labor) also settle for Reuther's settlement with management?

Bookchin is talking about Bernie Sanders when he is talking about that mayor that doesn't have problem with GE plant making weapons

You manage to find some amazing and rare videos. How do you happen upon them - scouring through archives?

“Maybe I’m being idiotic or ethical today”

Haha I see how someone could think of Murray as just a grumpy old man if they only see this video

I see two critical questions that spills into many of Bookchin's KZfaq video presentations, such as on "communitarianism". 1. WHY did Walther Reuther settle for enhanced benefits~tied to enhanced labor productivity ("class collaboration")? 2. WHY did the auto workers (labor) also settle for Reuther's settlement with management?

i thought this said "immortality" ;( no mr.bookchin nooo ;(

The success of Stalin - the man who used to boast that he conquered the United States "from the plow to the atomic bomb in just a generation" - compared to Gorbachev's failure shows that a socialist economy is unable to function with a minimum of efficiency without requiring a massive dose of political violence. In an attempt to reform a decadent regime, Gorbachev moved faster with the process of economic opening in the hope of removing the predictable resistance that the Soviet bureaucracy would create to economic reform measures, as thorough proof with the failed attempt. coup d'état in August 1991 - which ended up precipitating the final crisis of socialism and the dissolution of the USSR itself Its Chinese parallel - Deng Xiaoping - adopted a logic diametrically opposed to that of Gorbachev: it prioritized the achievement of economic prosperity (adopting in practice capitalism) precisely to delay any attempt at political opening, as was evident with the acceleration of the economy. reforms after the Tiananmen Square massacre. It is important to note that it was Karl Marx himself who, in his Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, discerned the scenario in which the conditions for a social revolution process are formed, describing it as follows: “At a certain stage in its development, the material productive forces of society contradict existing production relations or - which is only their legal expression - with the property relations in which they have been active until then. From the forms of development of the productive forces, these relations are transformed into fetters of them. So, it is a time of social revolution. ' * By rejecting the pursuit of profit maximization as an instrument to stimulate innovation, socialist countries ended up condemning themselves to obsolescence. Thus, they lost the chance to incorporate the productivity gains made possible by technological progress. That is why the capitalist countries managed to provide a greater rise in the standard of living of their population, even without pursuing the egalitarian ideal. Therefore, until the “final crisis of socialism” (to paraphrase K. Marx's own definitions once again), it was only a matter of time. But religious fanatics do not give up on their faith, even against the indisputable proof of the facts, which completely refute it! * Reproduced according to MARX, K. Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, organized by Florestan Fernandes and published under the title K. Marx: Theory and historical process of the social revolution, In Marx & Engels, Great Social Scientists Collection, History, vol. 36. São Paulo: Ática, 1983. p. 232. Commemorative edition of the centenary of Karl Marx's death.

Hero sanders was a mayor

37:30 shots fired, Bernie destroyed

why is it in black and white if its 1986?

Bernie background

Sounds like he's not a Bernard "Bernie" Sanders fan. Yeah, me neither.

So he wants a bunch of tribes... Like Afghanistan I guess... This assumption would assume everyone agrees with you totally (or by force) and won't offer another way by conversation or by force. It also requires living off a more well off society you parasite from to buy your goods or give you the wealth of their labor.