From 1947, Bookchin collaborated with a fellow lapsed Trotskyist, the German expatriate Josef Weber, in New York in the Movement for a Democracy of Content, a group of 20 or so post-Trotskyists who collectively edited the periodical Contemporary Issues – A Magazine for a Democracy of Content. Contemporary Issues embraced utopianism. The periodical provided a forum for the belief that previous attempts to create utopia had foundered on the necessity of toil and drudgery; but now modern technology had obviated the need for human toil, a liberatory development. To achieve this "post-scarcity" society, Bookchin developed a theory of ecological decentralism. The magazine published Bookchin's first articles, including the pathbreaking "The Problem of Chemicals in Food" (1952). In 1958, Bookchin defined himself as an anarchist, seeing parallels between anarchism and environmentalism. His first book, Our Synthetic Environment, was published under the pseudonym Lewis Herber, in 1962, a few months before Rachel Carson's famous Silent Spring.Paull, John (2013) "The Rachel Carson Letters and the Making of Silent Spring" , Sage Open, 3(July):1–12.
From 1947 Bookchin collaborated with a fellow lapsed Trotskyist the German expatriate Josef Weber in New York in the Movement for a Democracy of Content a group of 20 or so post-Trotskyists who collectively edited the periodical Contemporary Issues – A Magazine for a Democracy of Content Contemporary Issues embraced utopianism The periodical provided a forum for the belief that previous attempts to create utopia had foundered on the necessity of toil and drudgery; but now modern technology had obviated the need for human toil a liberatory development To achieve this "post-scarcity" society Bookchin developed a theory of ecological decentralism The magazine published Bookchin's first articles including the pathbreaking "The Problem of Chemicals in Food" (1952) In 1958 Bookchin defined himself as an anarchist seeing parallels between anarchism and environmentalism His first book Our Synthetic Environment was published under the pseudonym Lewis Herber in 1962 a few months before Rachel Carson's famous Silent SpringPaull John (2013) "The Rachel Carson Letters and the Making of Silent Spring"  Sage Open 3(July)1–12