Study Guide to The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin

The Ecology of Freedom Study guide to Murray Bookchin — key terms with substantial quotations and explanations, ordered by chapter. Search any concept. Click a card to expand. Source: The Ecology of Freedom (1982) · The Anarchist Library 0 shown · 0 total · click any card to expand Introduction 16 terms Hierarchy versus class and State key term From Bookchin “My use of the word hierarchy in the subtitle of this work is meant to be provocative. There is a strong theoretical need to contrast hierarchy with the more widespread use of the words class and State; careless use of these terms can produce a dangerous simplification of social reality. To use the words hierarchy, class, and State interchangeably, as many social theorists do, is insidious and obscurantist. This practice, in the name of a classless or libertarian society, could easily conceal the existence of hierarchical relationships and a hierarchical sensibility, both of which — even in the absence of economic exploitation or political…