The Philosophy of Murray Bookchin: An Interview with Debbie Bookchin
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
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!
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| 1:13.4 | today we have on Debbie Bookchin the daughter of Murray Bookchin to talk about |
| 1:17.0 | her father's work his philosophy and also touch on some of her ideas |
| 1:20.8 | especially around rojava was happening right now in northern Syria so we're |
| 1:25.8 | gonna cover a lot of ground today I'm extremely excited to have Debbie Bookchin |
| 1:28.6 | on I'm honored to have her on Debbie would you like to introduce yourself and |
| 1:32.8 | maybe say a little bit about your background for people who don't already know |
| 1:35.2 | who you are sure thanks first of all Brett thanks so much for having me it's a |
| 1:40.4 | pleasure to be here well I am one of two children of Murray's the other one being |
| 1:46.6 | my younger brother Joe who works in film and I grew up in New York City in the |
| 1:52.5 | late 60s and 70s becoming a journalist a journalist after college and really |
| 1:59.3 | working mostly in Vermont which is where my parents moved to in the 70s kind of |
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