by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jun 16, 2016 | bookchin, confederalism, platform
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking (as witness the recent tendency of radicals to espouse “market socialism” rather than deal with the failings of the market economy as well as state...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jun 16, 2016 | bookchin, confederalism, platform
Murray Bookchin Few arguments have been used more effectively to challenge the case for face-to-face participatory democracy than the claim that we live in a “complex society.” Modern population centers, we are told, are too large and too concentrated to allow for...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jun 14, 2016 | bookchin, family, sexual relations
Iroquois society was based in the matrilineal clan where women lived with their classificatory sisters – applying the principle that “my sister’s child is my child”. Because they lived and worked together, women in these communal households felt strong...
