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[BEST OF] The Philosophy of Murray Bookchin: An Interview with Debbie Bookchin

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

[Originally released Feb 2018]

Debbie Bookchin is a widely-published journalist and author whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Nation, and numerous other publications. She served as press secretary to Bernie Sanders when he served in the U.S. House and she recently co-edited a book of essays by her father, Murray Bookchin, called The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso Books 2015).

Debbie joins Brett to discuss the life and work of her father, Murray Bookchin, as well as the Rojavan Revolution, the rise of fascism, Social Ecology, Marxism, Anarchism, her father's legacy, and much, much more!

Find Debbie, and much of her work, on twitter: @Debbiebookcin

Learn more about and support the legacy of Murray Bookchin here: MurrayBookchin.org

Outro Music: "Opening Salvo" by Blue Scholars, find and support them here: http://bluescholars.com


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0:47.4

Welcome to revolutionary left radio.

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I'm your host Ann Comrade, Bredo Shea and today we have on Debbie Bookchin, the daughter

1:15.7

of Murray Bookchin to talk about her father's work, his philosophy and also touch on some

1:20.1

of her ideas, especially around Rojava, what's happening right now in Northern Syria.

1:24.7

So we're going to cover a lot of ground today.

1:26.9

I'm extremely excited to have Debbie Bookchin on.

1:29.4

I'm honored to have her on.

1:31.4

Debbie, would you like to introduce yourself and maybe say a little bit about your background

1:34.2

for people who don't already know who you are?

1:36.5

Sure, thanks first of all, Bred.

1:38.7

Thanks so much for having me.

1:40.2

It's a pleasure to be here.

1:42.0

Well, I am one of two children of Murray's, the other one being my younger brother Joe

1:48.8

who works in film and I grew up in New York City in the late 60s and 70s becoming a journalist

1:57.3

after college and really working mostly in Vermont, which is where my parents moved to

2:03.3

in the 70s, kind of as part of an out migration from the cities in order to live their decentralized

2:11.4

political ideas.

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