Libertarian Municipalism Archives - Transnational Institute of Social Ecology

Cities: The Unfolding of Reason in History

Written by Murray Bookchin. Originally published as a chapter of the book “The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies & the Promise of Direct Democracy” (2015) Libertarian municipalism constitutes the politics of social ecology, a revolutionary effort in which freedom is given institutional form in public assemblies that become decision-making bodies. It depends upon libertarian leftists running […]

January 5, 2022
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Tags: Libertarian Municipalism, Murray Bookchin, The Right to the City

In France, Libertarian Municipalism Finds Its Way

Direct democracy is returning to France: a cultural battle whose theoretical foundations are largely based on the thinking of the American intellectual Murray Bookchin. His “libertarian municipalism” has inspired municipal citizen lists, as he inspired the Yellow Vests and the Kurdish revolution in Rojava. By Gaspard d’Allens Published in Reporterre, February 28, 2020 Translated to […]

March 3, 2020
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Tags: France, Libertarian Municipalism, Murray Bookchin, Yellow Vests

City, Municipality, Commons: Rebel Cities in the Neoliberal Age

Written by Yavor Tarinski Introduction With the rise of cities, a major power shift is occurring this century across the planet in both economic and political terms. Dimitrios Roussopoulos[1] Nowadays the importance of the city is increasing, not only because of the fact that the majority of the human population is currently living […]

March 1, 2018
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Tags: Libertarian Municipalism, The Right to the City, Yavor Tarinski