If Bookchin is really as awesome as you people meme him up to be, why aren't there any Communalist political movements anywhere except Rojava? How do you suppose to change this?
If Bookchin is really as awesome as you people meme him up to be...
Austin James
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Thomas Kelly
We gotta help him into the spotlights fam
Rojava is also the only leftist project that is not garbage.
Lucas Morales
Please post all of your Bookchin images so i can save them.
Anthony Butler
There are Communalist and social ecologist groups in a few different places. The Montreal Urban Ecology Centre comes to mind as a big example, but there are smaller and lesser known groups like Eugene Communalism. But yeah, Bookchin is a lesser known about thinker.
Chase Cox
Here's a documentary made by the Canadian government (NFB), about a Bookchin-influenced movement in Montreal in 1990.
James Ross
Mainly because classical leftism, both Marxist and Anarchist, has conflated state-craft and politics, and so therefore, there has been no libertarian movements that do not also reject communalist politics.
Bookchin is legit a well-read and clever guy.
Google him.
Google Bookchin.
Jacob Sanchez
There is a small movement that recently got started in the USA: demconua.wordpress.com
Nathan Bennett
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Justin Ramirez
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Cameron Diaz
also this
Jackson Edwards
Communalism is still a pretty new ideology tbf. And Rojava will become the paradigm. Bakur (Turkish Kurdistan) also implemented the system and declared autonomy and Turkey went in and flattened many Kurdish cities to the ground in response. The goal is to build a base in the mainly Kurdish, sympathetic areas and then start pushing outward till as much of the Middle East as possible gets on board. You can see this with Rojava, they're now far beyond Kurdish majority regions and are implementing the system in Arab towns and cities too.
Benjamin Lewis
Does anyone have volumes 1 and 2 of "The Third Revolution"?
Matthew Lee
As a random thought, this would have been a perfect system for a leftist version of the Ottoman Empire.
Lucas Green
Thanks. I promise i will read the ecology of freedom and tell people about it.
Hudson Collins
No it fucking isn't. Communalism has existed for thousands of years and mostly for religious intentions.
Henry Green
Idiots.
The whole point of communalism is to invent local identities to it. DemCon is meant for mesopotamia, not America.
America must makes its own Libertarian Municipalism
Ryan James
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William Rogers
Agree, larping Rojava in the USA is stupid. But maybe they are just copying the name because its pretty rad
Logan Harris
The Next Revolution is a good place to start with Bookchin. You can even download it from here:
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Small "c" communalism, yes. But Bookchin's big "C" Communalism is a specific ideology, despite being historically informed by past communal experiments.
Tyler Mitchell
zapatista is sort of libertarian socialist with councils too. Although they're not strictly following bookchin.
Logan Foster
They're also stuck on a mountain doing a whole lot of nothing.
Kayden Sanders
???
Nicholas Clark
Parallel socialist mountain hideout from the military, more like.
Dylan Baker
some would call that freedom
Xavier Hill
Certainly. But it's nevertheless a doomed effort which has been driven out of its former heartland and does not stand a chance of spreading to more of Mexico.
Samuel Evans
They are quite active in organising the natives into political movements.
Gabriel Butler
"Revolution by example" has already been debunked. Get on with it.
Christopher Miller
Have some more images if they're relevant to your interests.
I'd start with The Next Revolution, although if you're already familiar with leftist thought I strongly recommend the last chapter of the following PDF (page 69 of the pdf, marked as page 66 in the book), "The Left That Was" which highlights why and how he breaks with the contemporary left.
Grayson Moore
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soz forgot the link