Murray Bookchin. New York (USA), 1921 - Burlington (USA), 2006
American historian, university professor, researcher, ideologue, and environmental activist, Bookchin is the founder of "social ecology"—a form of eco-anarchism—and one of the pioneers of the environmental movement. His ideas have influenced numerous social movements since the 1960s, such as the New Left, the anti-nuclear movement, the anti-globalization movement, Occupy Wall Street, and more recently, the democratic confederalism of Rojava. A central figure in the American Green movement and the Burlington Greens, he was one of the first political activists to write about ecology, both in the United States and in West Germany. He is the author of an extensive collection of books on history, politics, philosophy, urban planning, and ecology, including *Our Synthetic Environment* (1962), *Crisis in Our Cities* (1965), the *Post-Scarcity Anarchism* series (1971), and his successful critique of traditional Marxism, *Listen, Marxist!* (1969), which profoundly influenced the American New Left movement. In the latter years of that decade, he taught at Alternative University in New York. In 1974, he participated in the founding of the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont and assumed its directorship, gaining international recognition for his courses on ecophilosophy, social theory, and alternative technologies. Bookchin also held a professorship in Social Theory at Ramapo College in New Jersey.