Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Murray Bookchin
Born: January 14, 1921
Died: July 30, 2006 (aged 85)
Bio: Murray Bookchin was an American anarchist and libertarian socialist author, orator, historian, and political theoretician.
Known for:
- The Ecology of Freedom (1982)
- Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971)
- The Spanish Anarchists (1977)
- Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism (1995)
- The Murray Bookchin reader (1997)