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Murray Bookchin

Bookchin And The Legacy Of Direct Democracy

August 29, 2026 Yavor Tarinski, Grassroots Economic Organizing. , , , ,
With the fall of the Soviet Union, but also with the continuous inability of left-wing parties to alter the current state of things through reforms from within the system, the traditional political organizations have become largely marginal, with little to no genuine linkage to society. Rudi Dutschke’s strategy of “the long march through the institutions” is repeatedly failing to achieve anything different from the absorption of the Left by the dominant institutions it tries to change. Society at large have lost trust in the parliamentary model and its inability to cope with the crucial crises of our time: climate change, extreme inequality, concentration of power in the hands of few. Proof for that are the rising levels of abstention in elections worldwide.

The Kurds Liberating Themselves Through Grassroots Democracy

August 10, 2015 Joris Leverink, www.roarmag.org , , , ,
By Joris Leverink for ROAR Magazine - The developments in Kurdistan — and especially in Rojava, the Kurdish region in northern Syria — have tickled the radical imagination of activists around the globe. The revolution in Rojava has been compared to Barcelona in 1936 and the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico. The radical left needs its own mythology as much as everybody else, and in this sense Rojava, Barcelona and Chiapas serve as hopeful reminders that there is an alternative; that it is possible to organize society in a different way. Bookchin believes that if our ideal is a Commune of Communes, the natural place to start is at the local political level, with a movement and program as the “uncompromising advocate of popular neighborhood and town assemblies and the development of a municipalized economy.” Ultimately, the best way to support the struggles of the Kurds, the Zapatistas and many other revolutionary movements and initiatives that have sprung up across the globe in the past few years, is by listening to their stories, learning from their experiences and following in their footsteps.
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