Libertarianism+Socialism+Anarchism

Mary Bookchin deals with social ecology, though the primary focus of her work "Social Ecology Verses Deep Ecology" seems to be attacking various problems both with deep ecology theory and its adherents. Bookchin claims that deep ecology is an ethical mysticism that not only fails to achieve a useful environmental ethic, but propagates undesirable social and economic hierarchies in our "domineering market society." To Bookchin, "The very words 'deep ecology' clue us into the fact that we are not dealing with a body of clear ideas, but with an ideological toxic dump." He attacks the way in which the deep ecology describes it ideological forbearers, by coining the term “process philosophy,” because of the apparent ideological contradictions between them. Deep ecology is also criticized for not addressing decentralization, nonhierarchical, democracy, small-scale communities, local autonomy, mutual aid, communalism, or tolerance and for not referring to Kropotkin. -Grant
 * Mary **** Bookchin **