'Left anticommunists remained studiously unimpressed by the dramatic gains won by masses of previously impoverished people under communism. Some were even scornful of such accomplishments. I recall how in Burlington Vermont, in 1971, the noted anticommunist anarchist, Murray Bookchin, derisively referred to my concern for “the poor little children who got fed under communism” -Parenti
Bookchin is trash that eschewed the socialism built by men and women in this world, not some idealised romanticism of another world, built by some of the most oppressed people on this planet which he was happy to dismiss as not living up to his idealised version whilst sitting comfortably in the heart of imperialism.
When you google bookchin youre not downloading communism, youre downloading the opportunism.
I know nothing about Bookchin, I just uploaded for the meme.
