Phew, that was a lot. Don’t know if anybody reads my posts, but Ima keep sharing quotes from Bookchin. Why? Because it may open up a whole new way of thinking for some people. There are so many diverse ideas, philosophies, value systems, and economic frameworks to learn from! 12/12

Q10) The municipality in which all human beings can be citizens, irrespective of their ethnic background and ideological convictions, constitutes the true arena of a libertarian communist society. 11/12 <END OF BOOKCHIN QUOTES>

Q9) without the existence of a rational society, the municipality can easily become a megalopolis, in which community, however secular, is replaced by atomization and an inhuman social scale beyond the comprehension of its citizens 10/12

Q8) the municipality created an increasingly free space in which people began to see each other realistically, steadily unfettered by archaic notions of biological ties, tribal affiliations, and a mystical, tradition-laden, and parochial identity. 9/12

Q7) The town or city, or more broadly, the municipality, is not merely a “space” created by a given density of human habitations. It was the emerging civic substitute, based on residence and social interests, for the tribal blood group, which had been based on myths of a common ancestry. 8/12

Q6) What is regrettable is that … members of professed radical movements failed to distinguish electoral activity on the local level from electoral activity on the provincial and national levels , which really constitute statecraft. 7/12

Q5) to call for a “minimal state,” even as a coordinative institution, as Andre Gorz and others have done, is to obscure and countervail any effort to replace the nation-state with a confederation of municipalities . 6/12

Q4) when libertarians of all kinds engage in confederal municipalist politics and run for municipal public office, they are not merely seeking to remake cities, towns, and villages on the basis of fully democratic confederal networks, they are running against the state and parliamentary offices.5/12

Q3) there have already been tendencies that absurdly call for “grassroots democracy” while seeking to run candidates for state and national offices - statist institutions …whose essential functions is to confine, restrict, and essentially suppress local democratic institutions and initiatives. 4/12

Q2) A confederalist alternative would be based on a network of policymaking popular assemblies with recallable deputies to local and regional confederal councils—councils whose sole function would be to adjudicate differences and undertake strictly administrative tasks. 3/12

Quote #1 (Q1) In fact, for centuries, democratic forms of confederalism … have competed with statist forms and constituted a challenging alternative to centralization, bureaucratization, and the professionalization of power in the hands of elite bodies. 2/12