I have no quarrel with libertarians who advance the concept of capitalism of the type that you have advanced. I believe that people will decide for t… - Murray Bookchin

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I have no quarrel with libertarians who advance the concept of capitalism of the type that you have advanced. I believe that people will decide for themselves what they want to do. The all-important thing is that they be free to make that decision and that they do not stand in the way of communities that wish to make other decisions. I could live beautifully in a society of the kind that you have described, as well as in a collectivistic one. However, if that collectivistic one assumed any totalitarian forms, any authoritarian forms whatever, I would oppose that. And not only that: I would join your community in fighting it. Let me make it very plain that if socialism, which is what I call the authoritarian version of collectivism, were to emerge, I would join your community. I would migrate to your community and do everything I could to prevent the collectivists from abridging my right to function as I like. That should be made very clear.

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About Murray Bookchin

Murray Bookchin (14 January 1921 – 30 July 2006) was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher.

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