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Murray Bookchin Video Biography 04 - 1995

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Introduction

Fourth part of the Murray Bookchin interviews conducted by Mark Saunders in 1995. The project was to explore the development of Murray's politics through his personal experiences.

Murray was reticent to engage in anything that smacked of the personality cult but his biography covers key points in the development of radical politics and sets in context the "Social Ecology" of his later life.

The Bells! Bells have been added to this version as a dongle to prevent unauthorised use. The original version is clear of bells and of a high quality.

Credits

Date: May 1995
Location: Burlington, Vermont, USA
City: Vermont
Crew: Mark Saunders
Original Format - colour, hi8, 12 mins
Language versions - english
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Further Details

Fascism is "A once widespread faction of governing through such practices as military and authoritarian control."

A fascist is "One who believes the state and its control is greater than the masses.".

Definitions from Candidates.org: Political Dictionary

45:09     Trotskyites
(see part 2)

45:22     Spain

46:03     Young Communists League
(see part 1)

46:08     Lovestonites

46:11     Communist International
(see part 1)

46:13     Trotskyites

46:37     Nazis
(see part 1: "Nazi / Enemy of the Russian Revolution")

46:41      Madison Square Garden / Rally

46:46     Trotskyites

46:56     Nazis (beat up)

46:59     Fascists
(see above)

47:08     New York

47:12     Germany

47:19     Storm Trooper Uniform / Swastika
(The Swastika is most commonly known as the symbol of the nazi party).

47:27     Jewish Youth

47:36     Young Communists League

47:53      La Guardia (mayor of New York)

"Fiorello H. La Guardia was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945. He was a popular mayor and a strong supporter of the New Deal. La Guardia led New York's recovery during the Great Depression and became a national figure"

Summary From Wikipedia: fiorello h la guardia

48:05     Fascists

49:37     Stalin-Hitler Pact

Columbia University: Stalin-Hitler Pact

a leaflet issued by Trotskyist youth in the US to the Young Communist League concerning the Hitler-Stalin pact.

50:19     Trotskyite
(see part 2)

50:23     Socialists Workers Party

50:33     Union Square (Trotskyite headquarter)

51:06     Worker’s School / Communist University

51:45     Stalin

51:49     French Revolution

52:00     Social Democracy

52:30     Fourteenth Street

52:41    175th Street / 149th Street

53:13     Political Committee / borough / Central Committee

53:21 Communist Movement
(see part 1)

53:24 William Z. Foster
(see part 2)

53:31      Olgin
(see part 2)

53:41     Industrial workers of the world

54:01     Lenin

54:04     Trosky

54:06      Emma Goldman

"Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches. She was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution by her critics"

Summary From Wikipedia: Emma Goldman

Anarchism and Womens Liberation: Emma Goldman

The Emma Goldman Online Exhibition

54:11 Stalin

54:15 Communist International
(see part 1)

54:29 Alexander Berkman

"Alexander Berkman (November 21, 1870 – June 28, 1936) was a Russian-American writer and a leading member of the anarchist movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the lover and close associate of Emma Goldman (see above)"

Summary from: Wikipedia: Alexander Berkman

"A Sketch of Alexander Berkman" by Emma Goldman

54:37 Russian Revolution

54:41 Bolshevik Revolution
(see part 1)

55:06 Bill Haywood (“Big Bill”)

"William D. "Big Bill" Haywood ranks as one of the foremost and perhaps most feared of America's labor radicals. Physically imposing with a thunderous voice and almost total disrespect for law, Haywood mobilized unionists, intimidated company bosses, and repeatedly found himself facing prosecution."

Summary From William D Haywood

55:15     Russian Movement

55:18     Lenin

55:21     Trotsky

55:23     Moscow

55:37     Labour Movement

55:45     New Jersey

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