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Not the bread book?
But seriously, I would be down for it when I get back to normal hours.
You might argue Bookchin is more of a contemporary Kropotkin and his writings on Anarchism in general is another attempt to re-examine far-left ideology or the Anarchist and Communist movements in general per the last half of the 20th century. The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid, and all of that would be alternatives, but you could argue are fundamentally more than a century out of date.
Bookchin came about and wrote and such during a sort of revival of Kropotkin's thesises among college leftists. That is when he wasn't writing odes to the Spanish Anarchists.
I'm fine with whichever book gets chosen, honestly. Dinh's book looked like it had a lot to offer, and I think part of the structure has to be that someone familiar with the book has to introduce it to the others.
We could, theoretically, shorten this down to essays or something else if a book feels like too hard of a slog.
If it makes it easier, Bookchin - being an anarchist fundamentally - will likely have a lot of his material for free online. You literally just need to follow the meme: Google Bookchin. This sort of ties into Vilage's response at why I didn't suggest Kropotkin, though it's not because of a lack of inaccessibility; you can just as easily find and read the whole of Conquest of Bread online.
That said, I sort of suggested it as a joke and didn't expect it to be taken seriously. Though if we're going along with it then sure, why the fuck not.
As a basic primer Bookchin is a modern-day, contemporary Anarchist; much in the same vein as Noam Chomsky. Both were active in the debate and writing circles on the same time, Bookchin just happened to die first. Bookchin's main thing per Anarchism though is rejecting the anti-structural belief prevalent in present Anarchist society and dismissing spontaneous or isolated action. He firmly believes - in my experience in opinion from listening to interviews - in taking to seeking political change through active participation; primarily through taking responsibility of things at the local level.
His brand of Anarchism has been described today as Municipalism and is the overarching theory in Rojava today, hence why many political anarchists in my experience are keeping a close eye on Syrian Kurds in hopes their great experiment prevails passed the military action phase and we can start seeing things organize in the social, political, and economic sphere to present a final conclusion on the viability of the notion, like America to modern Republicanism in the 18th century. On the whole the notion is community ownership of property as it applies to resources, with direct democratic involvement of all the people in the community to manage or organize things to that end.
