{"id":9973,"date":"2015-11-25T18:26:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T18:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=9973"},"modified":"2015-11-25T20:16:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T20:16:18","slug":"they-like-murray-bookchin-not-murray-rothbard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/they-like-murray-bookchin-not-murray-rothbard\/","title":{"rendered":"They Like Murray Bookchin, Not Murray Rothbard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s<\/a> an interesting piece on Kurdish Syria, wherein the influence of American far-left thinking on the region’s secular politics is explored. Specifically, its influence on\u00a0Kurdistan Workers’ Party co-founder Abdullah Ocalan, who is currently languishing in a Turkish prison:<\/p>\n

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One of his supporters gave Ocalan his first book by an obscure Vermont-based philosopher named Murray Bookchin. After Ocalan read it, he requested everything Bookchin had ever written. Oliver Kontny, a translator and P.K.K. sympathizer who was working for Ocalan\u2019s lawyers at the time, told me that Ocalan let \u2018\u2018all of us know that he was working on a paradigm change based on what he learned from Bookchin.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

In solitary confinement, Ocalan studied Bookchin\u2019s magnum opus, \u2018\u2018The Ecology of Freedom,\u2019\u2019 at once a sweeping account of world history and a reimagining of Marx\u2019s \u2018\u2018Das Kapital.\u2019\u2019 In it, Bookchin argues that hierarchical relationships, not capitalism, are our original sin.<\/p>\n

Bookchin favored what he called the \u2018\u2018Hellenic model\u2019\u2019 of democracy, the type of direct, face-to-face government once practiced in ancient Greece.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fascinating.<\/p>\n

As W.E.I.R.D.<\/a> as both Bernie Sanders’ supporters and libertarians are, the former really are less parochial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting piece on Kurdish Syria, wherein the influence of American far-left thinking on the region’s secular politics is explored. Specifically, its influence on\u00a0Kurdistan Workers’ Party co-founder Abdullah Ocalan, who is currently languishing in a Turkish prison: One of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[1150,1149,1148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9973"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9984,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions\/9984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}