Social Ecology and Communalism
@inproceedings{Bookchin2007SocialEA, title={Social Ecology and Communalism}, author={Murray Bookchin}, year={2007} }
in the endless arguments that are brought against it. Phenomena as “dead” as the free community and participatory democracy should presumably arouse far fewer opponents than we continue to encounter. The rise of the great megalopolis has not ended the historic quest for community and civic politics, any more than the rise of multinational corporations has removed the issue of nationalism from the modern agenda. Cities like New York, London, Frankfurt, Milan, and Madrid can be politically…
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References
The more significant works include the books From Urbanization to
- My writings on libertarian municipalism date back to the early 1970s, with "Spring Offensives and Summer Vacations
- 1972