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...
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 13, 2016 | confederalism, platform
Derived from Abdullah Ocalan The right of self-determination of the peoples includes the right to a state of their own. However, the foundation of a state does not increase the freedom of a people. The system of the United Nations that is based on nation-states has...
