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Murray Bookchin Video Biography 32 - 1995
Introduction
Thirty second part of the Murray Bookchin interviews conducted by Mark Saunders in 1995. The project explored the development of Murray's politics through his personal experiences.
Credits
Date: May 1995
Location: Burlington, Vermont, USA
City: Vermont
Crew: Mark Saunders
Original Format - colour, hi8, 07:26 mins
Language versions - english
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Further Details
MB010 32-01
01:43:04 Marxism wasn't associated with psychology.
An article on the link between Marxism and Psychology.
01:43:14 In 30s there was virtually no Marxian literature on Freud.
01:43:24 Marxists criticism emerged from the like of Georg Lukacs. Critics group of the 1930s.
Wikipedia entry on the life of Lukács
Lukács' account of class consciousness.
A brief overview of Marxist theory and its critics.
1993 project - Marxist criticism
A simple guide to Marxist theory and its leading criticisms.
01:43:57 The idea that you needed a wider and broader sensibility was viewed as a petty bourgeouise indulgence. As Lenin said "why are you concerned with your sensibility, isn't the party line enough?"
Wiki - Sensibility
A wikipedia article on the definition and nature of Sensibility.
01:44:08
This also applied to the Trotskyist movement
Robert Jackson Alexander's work on the international Trotskyist movement.
An account of the history of the American Trotskyist movement.
A socialist website description of Trotsky and his life and an overview of the Trotskyist movement worldwide.
01:44:38 Bookchin felt that there had to be a change in sensibility, that required a cultural re-awakening like the Renaissance or the Enlightenment.
Wikipedia article on the Renaissance.
Learning archive on the Renaissance
Un site de web Francais avec tous les details et l'histoire de la renaissance / A French website with information and history of the renaissance
An internet resource on the Enlightenment period.
George Rempel's description of the Age of the Enlightenment.
01:44:50 Didn't like the poetry of the Bowery Poets club.
01:45:04 LeRoi Jones' famous line 'Up against the wall mother fucker'.
Description and background to Jones' famous quote
01:45:20 Did not like Arnor Ginsburg's (?) poetry.
01:46:08 Felt that the utopia that he was committed to had to be a new culture, a new enlightenment or renaissance.
Wikipedia article on the Renaissance.
Learning archive on the Renaissance
Un site de web Francais avec tous les details et l'histoire de la renaissance / A French website with information and history of the renaissance
An internet resource on the Enlightenment period.
George Rempel's description of the Age of the Enlightenment.
01:46:43 Talks of 'alternative culture'.
Wiki - Alternative Culture
A wikipedia article on the idea of alternative culture.
01:47:42 The history of the US was becoming nothing more than a history of 'General Motors'.
History of General Motors
01:47:52 Peoples' histories of the US, like the one written by Howard Zinn, perpetuated this idea.
Biography and intoduction to the philosophy of Zinn.
An excerpt from Zinn's 'A people's History of the United States'.
01:48:21 Speculated over people being won over by fascism.
Fascism
An article from Russ Belant's 'Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party', which describes the nature of fascism.
01:48:44 Talks of the need for a new spirituality, not like modern mysticism.
Mysticism
The Mystica's guide to the idea of mysticism.
Peter Russell's guide to spirituality
01:49:01 Anarchists provided a new ensemble of institutions.
01:49:19 Says society also needed a new art, new music etc...but not one that meant people would forget the like of Beethoven or Bach. Rock n Roll became popular.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Description of Beethoven.
Wikipedia entry on Bach
Wikipedia entry on the history of Rock and Roll music.
Guardian article on Rock and Roll
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