If you would like to come to the bookgroup but haven't read the first few chapters, don't worry, here is the thrust of it!

Chapter 1 Society and Ecology;
Bookchins tries "to show that humanity and the human capacity to think are products of natural evolution, not "aliens" in the natural world."
He argues that "Nature [...] is not a frozen scene that we observe from a picture window or a mountain top. [...] nature is the very history of its evolutionary differentiation."

Chapter 2 Hierarchies, Classes and states;

Bookchin tries "to show how far we must go and how deeply we must enter into the most everyday aspects of our lives in order to root out the notion of dominating nature."
"In so doing," Bookchin has "tryed to emphasize the extent to which the domination of human by human precedes the notion of dominating nature, indeed, even preceds the emergence of classes and the State." Bookchin "has asked - and tried to answer - how hierarchies emerged, why they emerged, and the way they became increasingly differentiated into initially temporary and , later, firmly based status groups, and, finally, classes and the State."

Next chapter to read and discuss will be Chapter 3, Turning Points in History
Date to be announced