by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Aug 1, 2016 | platform
2015-2017 National Platform The Socialist Party stands for the abolition of every form of domination and exploitation, whether based on social class, gender, race/ethnicity, age, education, sexual orientation, or other characteristics. We are committed to the...
by margaret | Jul 29, 2016 | bookchin, foundation, platform
adapted from Murray Bookchin, Municipal Libertarianism Any agenda that tries to restore and amplify the classical meaning of politics and citizenship must clearly indicate what they are not, if only because of the confusion that surrounds the two words. Politics is...
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...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jun 16, 2016 | bookchin, confederalism, platform
Decentralism and self-sustainability must involve a much broader principle of social organization than mere localism. Together with decentralization, approximations to self-sufficiency, humanly scaled communities, ecotechnologies, and the like, there is a compelling...
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...
