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A bookchin talk I didn't know about utopia contra futurism: https://unevenearth.org/2019/10/bookchin_doing_the_impossible/
Uneven Earth - Where the ecological meets the political · Utopia, not futurism: Why doing the impossible is the most rational thing we can do - Uneven Earthby Murray Bookchin On August 24, 1978, Murray Bookchin gave a lecture at the Toward Tomorrow Fair in Amherst, Massachusetts. Also speaking at that year's gathering were several prominent thinkers, including R. Buckminster Fuller and Ralph Nader. In his speech, Bookchin argues against the ideology of futurism and for ecological utopianism. In the Q&A session,
@woodbark@kolektiva.social(tbh I am not a big fan of bookchin mostly because he behaved as an asshole a couple of important times where he - instead of making a well articulated and foundational point - went for the conflation of assumptions and simplification of things just for the in-group audience..see his deminishing of Bateson and calling him a reductionists just because he did not want to have a proper debate...