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Read *Ecology of Freedom* they said... Well I **DID**. Cover to mofo cover.

Okay so (1) organic society is low-key the noble savage trope (2) Bookchin died before the Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck was discovered (3) Bookchin high-key uses Hegel's method which is to simply make shit up from thought experiments—great for philosophy but not deep history.

When Marx wrote *Capital*, he was actually alive to witness commodity relations. Neither Hegel nor Bookchin was alive to witness the master–slave dialectic or organic society, both of which are thought experiments (if albeit useful). In this, I suppose Bookchin was more Hegelian than Marx…