Modern Kriz

Modern Crisis Book Description Murray Bookchin's book Modern Crisis draws attention to the great crisis of our age. How the ecological crisis is reflected in the social, political and systemic crisis: "Where did we go wrong in history to face such a tremendous crisis in our relations with each other and the natural world?" He tries to explain by starting with the question. If we desperately need an ethics that will unite the ideal with the real and give words like “realism” a richer, more rational meaning than they already have, then we are faced with a traditional dichotomy: good and bad, right and wrong… Capitalism is a limitless, universal world. Selling and buying is actually a "system" (if it is correct to call it that) that accelerates the reign of unlimited growth and expansion. The reduction of the citizen not only to the "voter" of the political realm, but also to buyers and sellers in the economic realm, brings competition in the market to the most intimate, daily aspects of life. We are no longer just in a “fight against nature”, we are also busy fighting with each other. This painful modern crisis has brought about a serious crisis within many ideological movements trying to replace what they have displaced. Either we undertake, in the light of these considerations, a ruthless re-establishment of radical social theory and analysis, or we remain mindless victims of the dogmas inherited from an age long gone and now playing a completely misleading, indeed reactionary role in social consciousness. The Modern Crisis sheds light on how to overcome the crisis that has emerged as a plague of our age. (From the Promotional Bulletin)