Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments

Some of these essays appeared previously in other venues and we would like to acknowledge them as follows: The essay “The Ecological Crisis and the Need to Remake Society” was originally written for a Greek audience in 1992 and later published in English under the title “The Ecological Crisis, Socialism, and the Need to Remake Society” in the journal Society and Nature vol. 2, no. 3, 1994. “A Politics for the Twenty-First Century” was originally a video-transmitted speech presented to the First International Conference on Libertarian Municipalism, Lisbon, 1998. “The Meaning of Confederalism” was originally published in From Urbanization to Cities,London: Cassell, 1995. “Libertarian Municipalism: A Politics of Direct Democracy” was originally titled “Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview” and appeared in Green Perspectives, no. 24, 1991. “Cities: The Unfolding of Reason in History” was excerpted from the article, “Comments on the International Social Ecology Network Gathering and the ‘Deep Social Ecology’ of John Clark” published in Democracy and Nature, vol. 3, no. 3, 1997. “Nationalism and the ‘National Question’ ” was originally published in Society and Nature vol. 2, no. 2, 1994. “Anarchism and Power in the Spanish Revolution” appeared in Communalism, no. 2, 2002.

We gratefully acknowledge Audrea Lim, Jacob Stevens, Mark Martin, and the entire team at Verso for their tireless efforts in disseminating radical thought. We want to also acknowledge the longstanding dedication to these ideas by everyone at the Institute for Social Ecology. Finally, Jim Schumacher has supported Murray Bookchin and his work in ways that go far beyond the love and loyalty of a typical son-in-law; his commitment to Murray’s vision and legacy were invaluable in the realization of this volume.