Communalism
Your neighbourhood assembly is the government.
Communalism is Murray Bookchin's idea: politics happens in the room, at open meetings where every resident of the town or block gets a voice. Those towns team up in a confederation instead of answering to a nation-state, and run a shared economy that respects ecological limits. The Kurdish-led self-administration in northern Syria took a version of it into practice.
What they'd say
Real democracy means showing up to the meeting.
Cities should federate, not obey.
You can't fix the climate inside a growth economy.
Its 12-axis profile
Where it gets messy
Can neighbourhood meetings really run power grids and hospitals? And small communities can get very pushy about fitting in.
Names to know
- Murray Bookchin
- Abdullah Öcalan
- Janet Biehl
Its squad
Countries that think like this
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