Errata

The following corrections have been made in Janet Biehl's "Bookchin Breaks with Anarchism", published online by Communalism: International Journal for a Rational Society, October 2007. (These corrections were inserted in the published text December 2007.)

Page 4: Social hierarchies, he came to believe, were more fundamental than economic classes, existing as they did long before capitalism. It was through hierarchies that social strata dominated one another. Indeed, social hierarchies gave rise to the idea of dominating nature. The concept of hierarchy was thus of great relevance to Murray’s still-developing “social ecology.” [footnote]
Page 6: In 1969 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the primary political organization of the American New Left, collapsed, its leadership having been taken over by ultraleft guerrilla groups like Weatherman.
Page 12: But in the early 1980s something happened that permanently changed his thinking:
Page 13: The revolutionary era, Murray realized in the early 1980s, was over.

Thanks to Andy Price and Brian Tokar for calling our attention to the need for these corrections.