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 Thursday August 17, 2006 22:16 by Open City Collective - NEFAC
 The Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC) extends its deepest sympathies to the family, friends, and all of the comrades of Murray Bookchin. Comrade Bookchin was a man who rigorously believed in the ideal of a free society. Without him, we find ourselves missing one of the great libertarian thinkers of our time--a man who was not afraid to speak and make his opinions known, whether popular or unpopular, and a man who led an active and committed life in the struggle for a true social freedom, an ecological society, and a popular, participatory, directly democratic politics. We stand enriched not only by his contributions to left libertarian thought but also by the life he lived, in which he participated in and shaped many social movements, brought the Institute for Social Ecology, along with others, into being, and was a tireless critic of anti-social and anti-democratic trends within the anarchist, radical left, and ecological milieux. |
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Spring zu Komment: 1La NorthEastern Federation of Anarchist Communists (NEFAC) esprime il proprio cordoglio alla famiglia, agli amici ed a tutti i compagni di Murray Bookchin. Il compagno Bookchin è stato un uomo che ha creduto rigorosamente nell'ideale di una società libera. Senza di lui, ci sentiamo privi di uno dei grandi pensatori libertari del nostro tempo; un uomo che non aveva timore di esprimere e far conoscere le sue opinioni, sia quelle impopolari come quelle popolari; un uomo che ha condotto una vita di impegno attivo nella lotta per una vera libertà sociale, per una società ecologica, per una politica popolare fondata sulla partecipazione e sulla democrazia diretta. Tutti noi abbiamo tratto arricchimento non solo dai suoi contributi al pensiero della sinistra libertaria ma anche dalla sua stessa vita, dedicata alla partecipazione ed alla nascita, con molti altri, di tanti movimenti sociali, dell'Istituto di Ecologia Sociale; dal suo essere, e lo era davvero, un instancabile critico delle tendenze antisociali ed antidemocratiche all'interno del milieux anarchico, di quello ecologista e della sinistra radicale.
Ad onore della sua franchezza e nel rispetto delle sue idee, proprio in quanto federazione di anarchici su posizione di lotta di classe, fosse lui qui ora con noi, ci saremmo trovati in disaccordo su molte questioni politiche ed è proprio per questa ragione che egli ci manca così tanto. Perchè egli non è stato solo una individualità che ha costruito un sistema visionario e razionale per una politica a favore di una società libera e basata sulla democrazia diretta, ma è stato anche una persona che non temeva di sfidare chiunque ad un atteggiamento critico ed acuto verso le proprie idee.
Con spirito rivoluzionario e con il più profondo rispetto, piangiamo la dipartita di Murray Bookchin e celebriamo la vita che egli condusse. Che egli non venga mai dimenticato, che possa una nuova generazione essere ispirata dal suo pensiero e dalla sua vita, che la costruzione di una società libera, senza classi e basata sulla democrazia diretta sia l'ultimo e duraturo omaggio alla memoria di un uomo che ha perseguito senza sosta questo stesso ideale.
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