Reviews and Comments

This book introduces you to Bookchin, Ocalan, social ecology, democratic confederalism, and the Kurdish ecology movement.

While this book introduced me to libertarian socialism, looking back I think its anti-anarchist message could be harmful. Honestly, I internalized its anti-anarchism. Looking back, its anti-anarchism is pretty weak. As Iain McKay pointed out, the anti-anarchism of old Bookchin (this book) can be countered by the anarchist defences of earlier Bookchin.

I thought this book was an excellent introduction to Bookchin's thought.

I hate Duterte. This book provides intelligent critique of Duterte. The collection is strongest I think in it's critique of the left who got caught up in joining Duterte's fascist regime.

This book was really so good. It made me interested in comparative politics.

This book was enlightening. I learned about anti-colonial movements in Southeast Asia. I learned about Isabelo de los Reyes, the first Filipino socialist who was anarchist-inflected. I learned more about Jose Rizal from this book than in Filipino class.

Walden Bello is always a good read. The book provides a solid foundation for why the Philippine crisis is a permanent crisis.

Generally I've moved away from Monbiot's milquetoast environmentalism, but I did like it at the time.

Most of it still holds up. Good pluralist perspective. It ought be taken on its own terms, I think, regardless of the opportunist nonsense of its editor.

My favorite part of the book was the short stories and vignettes. I love the idea that America is a place for all kinds of immigration where migrants brought their gods with them.

I was on the fence on whether I ought be an anarchist, this book convinced me that I want to be an anarchist.