Post-Scarcity Anarchism

Berkeley: Ramparts Press, 1971. First edition. First edition. Association copy signed by Murray Bookchin on the front free endpaper, inscribed to poet Diane DiPrima, "For Diane -- with love and admiration [signed] Murray September 20 '71." The granddaughter of Italian-American anarchists and the best-known female Beat poet, DiPrima was a lifelong activist associated with the San Francisco counterculture, environmentalist movement, and radical left. Bookschin was a leftwing anarchist philosopher, pioneer of environmentalism, and professor who is best-known for his concept of "social ecology." Post-Scarcity Anarchism is his best-known book, an anarchist (truncated) critique of 20th century capitalist society rooted in environmentalism but also optimistic about the role of technology (which would later land him in hot water with the postleft anti-civ wing of anarchism). The book's publisher was also responsible for the trailblazing alternative political magazine Ramparts.
288 pp. Errata slip laid in at rear. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black spine lettering. Near Fine, contents toned with age, light wear, in a Very Good dust jacket, lightly worn, toned with age, spine panel sunned, unclipped (6.95). Rare signed, especially with such an interesting association between two major figures in the 20th century American counterculture. (Inventory #: 140947163)