The 16 books Bufe has authored, co-authored, compiled, edited, or translated have garnered favorable reviews in publications such as Publishers Weekly and Booklist (Free Radicals), Z Magazine (Heretic's Handbook of Quotations), Free Inquiry (American Heretic's Dictionary), and Guitar Player and Jazz Player (An Understandable Guide to Music Theory), and 11 are still in print.
[6] In this essay, Bufe[7] launches heavy criticism against anarcho-primitivists, including Fredy Perlman and the Vancouver Five eco-terrorist group, as well as the publications Fifth Estate, Resistance, The Spark, and Open Road.
He criticizes these and other so-called "lifestyle" anarchists in the movement for deliberately alienating mainstream society, and falling to victim to dangerous irrationality and mysticism.
[8] In his account of "marginalised" anarchists, Bufe criticizes the anti-work tendency in contemporary anarchism, accusing some of its advocates of being parasites of those who do work.
[8] In response, Feral Faun wrote an article called "The Bourgeois Roots of Anarcho-Syndicalism" in which he claims that the endorsement of work showed that anarcho-syndicalists "embrace the values essential to capitalism", only objecting to who is in charge.