Murray Bookchin - The Art of Public Access Television

Murray Bookchin is a character who runs throughout 20th century anarchism and radical politics. He started hanging out with what he refers to as the political wing of the anarchists, which I think is in contrast to the art anarchists. Ben Mariam would show up to these discussions and then he'd get annoyed at them for being like hopelessly stuck in bullshit theory instead of like doing action. And probably more importantly to our story, he got together with some friends and he started attacking the bourgeois art world. They called this group black mask. One of their first big actions is that they shut down the Museum of Modern Art, the MoMA. This episode plays very strangely into the future when we talk