by margaret | Apr 3, 2023 | bookchin, confederalism, muncipalism, ocalan, spanish civil war, spanish revolution
Since 2014 solidarity activists, independent leftists, and others have been crossing the Tigris to study the developments in Rojava, the independent multi-ethnic enclave in northern Syria. Here the Kurdish people, whose aspirations have been stomped on for generations...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Apr 25, 2017 | bakunin, confederalism, spanish revolution
The International Workingmen’s Association, 1868 The Rules and Program of the International Alliance of Socialist Democracy Founded in Geneva in October 1868 Written: by Bakunin, October 1868; Translated: (from French) by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism...
by margaret | Jan 31, 2017 | bookchin, confederalism
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 direct...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jul 8, 2016 | bookchin, confederalism, liberty
Social anarchism is made of fundamentally different stuff, heir to the Enlightenment tradition, with due regard to that tradition’s limits and incompleteness. Depending upon how it defines reason, social anarchism celebrates the thinking mind without in any way...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jun 16, 2016 | bookchin, confederalism, platform
If many pragmatic people are blind to the importance of decentralism, many in the ecology movement tend to ignore very real problems with “localism” — problems no less troubling than the problems raised by a globalism that fosters a total interlocking of economic and...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jun 16, 2016 | bookchin, confederalism, platform
Above all, I have tried to show in my previous writings how confederation on a municipal basis has existed in sharp tension with the centralized state generally, and the nation-state of recent times. Confederalism, I have tried to emphasize, is not simply a unique...
