Part two of MPR’s Paul Gruchow interview with author Murray Bookchin. The social theorist discusses the need for more communal lifestyles. He hopes for a change in public thinking and eventually institutions.

Bookchin traces societal evolution from the blood ties of clans, tribes, and families to a social society based on common interests. He says the trend of people dropping out of the workplace to become farmers and craftsmen is a sign this is no longer a youth culture but a counter culture. People are questioning relationships, consumerism, conventional lifestyles, and work and that there is a sea change in their values. They are not prepared any longer to accept the predatory attitude of “compete, advance, climb the ladder, step over bodies.”