Biographyīookchin was born in New York City to Russia n Jewish immigrants Nathan Bookchin and Rose (Kaluskaya) Bookchin. He was a central figure in the American green movement and the Burlington Greens. His ideas have influenced social movements since the 1960s, including the New Left, the anti-nuclear movement, the anti-globalization movement, Occupy Wall Street, and more recently, the democratic confederalism of Rojava. īookchin was a prominent anti-capitalist and advocate of social decentralisation along ecological and democratic lines. In the late 1990s he became disenchanted with what he saw as an increasingly apolitical 'lifestylism' of the contemporary anarchist movement, stopped referring to himself as an anarchist, and founded his own libertarian socialist ideology called Communalism, which seeks to reconcile Marxist and anarchist thought. Among the most important were Our Synthetic Environment (1962), Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971), The Ecology of Freedom (1982) and Urbanization Without Cities (1987).

He was the author of two dozen books covering topics in politics, philosophy, history, urban affairs, and ecology. A pioneer in the ecology movement, Bookchin formulated and developed the theory of social ecology and urban planning, within anarchist, libertarian socialist, and ecological thought.

Murray Bookchin (Janu– July 30, 2006) was an United States social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher.

Bookchin the ecology of freedom