Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #municipalism, aggregated by home.social.
Démocratie politique : ce que le local peut (et ne peut pas) faire. Synthèse et limites
Après plusieurs mois de lecture sur les assemblées, le tirage au sort, les communes et les référendums locaux, voici une synthèse : ce que la démocratie politique locale permet réellement, et pourquoi elle ne suffit pas sans démocratie économique. 🧵 #DirectDemocracy #LocalDemocracy #Sortition #Municipalism #PoliticalEconomy #Marxism #Degrowth 1. Ce que j’ai appris sur la démocratie…
13/09/2026 – Social Ecology and What We Can Learn from Rojava https://www.a-radio.net/2026/6952 #Sendungen #bookchin #direct_democracy #municipalism #mutual_aid #oekologie #rojava #social_ecology #widerstand
Pluralistic: Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/08/find-yourself-a-city/
For those of you interested in ensuring #municipalism retains its core value of #autonomy, the heads at Woodbine have some thinking to offer.
https://woodbinenyc.substack.com/p/notes-on-municipal-autonomy
Social infrastructure in diverse and unequal cities: Examining Civic Management facilities in Barcelona #Municipalism
Behavioural nudges in circular economy transitions: evidence and gaps from urban consumption systems - Academia.edu #Municipalism
https://www.academia.edu/2997-6006/2/4/10.20935/AcadEnvSci7946
🌎 [EN] 🏘️✊ 20/03 20:00h — “Out with hate from our streets! Municipalism against the far right”. Anna Gabriel will discuss municipalist experiences to confront the far right and strengthen coexistence.
🌐 +info https://agora-r.ecoarglobal.org/anna-gabriel-i-sabate/
💪 https://pepaloba.org/?lang=en#asociate
✊ https://ecoarglobal.org/en/activist-space
Reclaiming the Public Interest: Cities Should Sell Municipal Bonds to Their Own Public Banks
#publicbanking #municipalism #socialism
https://mronline.org/2026/03/04/reclaiming-the-public-interest-cities-should-sell-municipal-bonds-to-their-own-public-banks/
Pluralistic: Socialist excellence in New York City (24 Feb 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/24/mamdani-thought/
Benanav vs Morozov on the Political Economy of AI. Now, this will definitely be quite a read...!
"Choosing among available paths may widen or contract the field of possibilities. Some futures are rendered easier to realize; others are effectively foreclosed; and people’s understandings of what matters shift as they move forward in time—much as in Morozov’s own account of technological worldmaking. The difference is that, in my framework, this process is understood from the outset as political because it unfolds under conditions of scarcity that force collective choice among rival futures.
What is puzzling about Morozov’s critique is that this political core disappears from view. A framework designed to organize conflict over investment—to make trade-offs visible, contestable, and binding when not everything can be pursued at once—is recast as a system of administrative closure that would prematurely discipline experimentation. His analysis is not simply a misunderstanding of my proposed framework but a reversal of its intent: It reads an account meant to politicize worldmaking as an attempt to suppress it."
https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-real-political-economy-of-technology/
#AI #GenerativeAI #PoliticalEconomy #Democratization #PublicPolicy #Municipalism #GreenTransition #Communitarianism
Building “Mass Governance” in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City #municipalism
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/mamdani-municipal-governance-mass-democracy/
Zohran Needs to Create Popular Assemblies #municipalism
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/mamdani-popular-assemblies-democratic-socialism/
Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities #municipalism
Great thread, thank you @scarlet ! :black_sparkling_heart:
Plus: even anarchists can participate in local governance. Sounds weird to anybody? I can recommend Murray Bookchin, hehe :bookchin:
https://jaco bin.com/2025/12/spain-mamdani-colau-carmena-municipal/
Mexico City’s UTOPIAs – Socialist Forum #municipalism
https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/fall-winter-2025/mexico-citys-utopias/
Pluralistic: Zohran Mamdani's world-class photocopier-kicker (15 Nov 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/15/unconscionability/
At a town meeting, the mayor said, “We’re here to give the people a voice.”
Bookchin leaned forward and said, “Then why do you keep holding the microphone?”
#jokes #anarchism #socialecology #municipalism #humor #funny
A politician said, “We need to think globally and act locally.”
The social ecologist replied, “Great—then start by resigning and letting the neighborhood decide what to do with your office.”
#jokes #anarchism #socialecology #municipalism #humor #funny
Bookchin walks into city hall. They ask, “Sir, are you here to run for office?”
He says, “No, I’m here to dissolve it—preferably by consensus.”
And when #Mamdani wins, we need to implement Murray Bookchin's radical #municipalism
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5439256-nyc-mayoral-race-mamdani-leads/
More here
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/debbie-bookchin-radical-municipalism #bookchin #anarchism #anarchist #vermont #brooklyn #newyork #Climate
The Post-Political Privilege State: Neo-liberalism, Crisis Management and the Class Logic of Welfare Retraction @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5284276
#PostPolitics #StateTheory #Neoliberalism #CrisisManagement #AlgorithmicGovernance #WorldSystemsTheory #TransnationalCapitalistClass #Hegemony #Biopolitics #Immunity #PostcolonialTheory #Municipalism
"WTF Is Social Ecology?" a new essay by the Usufruct Collective (@usufructcollective):
https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/wtf-is-social-ecology/
👇 Traduction en français ci-dessous 👇
#anarchism #communalism #municipalism #socialecology #ecology
#directdemocracy #mutualaid #directaction #commons #commoning
New Essay entitled "WTF Is Social Ecology?"
"The ecological crisis is not caused by an excess of human freedom; itis instead caused by the destruction of social freedom that happens through domination and exploitation towards goals of profit and powerover others"
https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/wtf-is-social-ecology/
#anarchism #communalism #municipalism #socialecology #ecology #directdemocracy #mutualaid #directaction #commons #commoning
From NSP 13 with @KevinCarson1 :anarchistflagblack:
🔗 https://youtu.be/E2FmVYG5mXQ
@Nalevo @C4SS #anarchism #municipalism #commons #countereconomics #mutualism #postcapitalism
Here's my first blog post in response to the 2024 election in the U.S.
I've supported municipalism for years. Now that fascism is on the rise in the U.S. and beyond, municipalism is more important than ever.
Let's meet in our local communities to support mutual aid efforts & build power together.
https://treesong.org/blog/resist-fascism-by-embracing-municipalism/
"Radical municipalism is a political and social philosophy that advocates for transformative change at the local level, with a focus on participatory and grassroots democracy.”
"Building Power in Place: A Municipalist Organizing Toolkit synthesizes learnings, takeaways, exercises, and case studies for organizers…”
https://municipalism.org/project/building-power-in-place-a-municipalist-organizing-toolkit/
Fearless Cities is soon🔥🔥
Sheffield 2-3 November
We're organising sessions delving into #LocalGov #Coop #DebtAudit #Accountability #LocalDemocracy, #publiccommonspartnership #Municipalism #SSE #AI #FoI + much more
Tickets free, donations welcome
https://www.fearlesscitiessy.org/
Check out the program here
https://www.fearlesscitiessy.org/_files/ugd/853732_e382fb65c3af4ab0be79f7053795f93c.pdf
As the grid loses power in heatwaves, and communities & landscapes face mounting extraction for battery supply chains, this video shows how we can make environmentally just transitions to solar at scale — cooking, heating, refrigerating food, and living our daily lives.
This is especially important in the context of mining, and furthers the vision of the newly announced Indigenous Peoples Principles and Protocols for Just Transition.
We're looking to support this vision in urban and residential areas through new housing projects, resilience hubs, and retrofits/conversions to existing buildings. If you're interested, we're very up to collaborate and connect with new partners on that!
Finally, please watch and share! We're hoping for a lot of people to see this, and watching till the end helps algorithms recommend it to more people. Hoping to bring a lot more of the conversation to this direction.
#JustTransition #GreenNewDeal #Solar #Resilience #RenewableEnergy #Renewables #Community #Lithium #Mining #Extraction #Indigenous #Environment #EnvironmentalJustice #EJ #Postgrowth #Transitions #Solidarity #RareEarthMetals #Batteries #Storage #Sustainability #Sustainable #Grid #Electricity #Heat #Degrowth #Autonomy #Municipalism #LowTech #Hardware #Engineering #Invention #Inventor
Friends and followers! We are very excited to be organising a #municipalism summit called Fearless Cities in Sheffield in November.
Registrations are now open!
https://www.fearlesscitiessy.org/
Come and share ideas about how we can build a better local democracy, reclaim commons and rethink care.
@Laura This festival looks great! Wish it were local to me.
You may find use in this municipalism toolkit, which is available now and has a big public launch event coming up next month: https://municipalism.org/building-power-in-place/ #commons #solidarity #economics #municipalism #local #solarpunk #degrowth
Just signed up for this event tomorrow(!), July 6. It's an introduction to Building Power in Place, a new toolkit with, "practical tips to apply municipalist strategy to your local organizing context. And…key takeaways, lessons learned, and case studies to inspire and support municipalist projects."
https://municipalism.org/building-power-in-place/
#municipalism #local #economics #SolidarityEconomy #politics #governance #organizing #activism #anarchism #socialism #SocialAnarchy #MurrayBookchin
I'm kind of annoyingly becoming a fan of Kōhei Saitō... Fan is a weird word to use for "public intellectuals," and even weirder for specific theorists l, but I'm not sure what else to call it at this point. Would love to hear more about that first question though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7NodCYbDPI
#Degrowth #DegrowthCommunism #Revoloution #Coops #Books #Theory #Marx #Marxism #Socialism #Democracy #Municipalism #Anarchism #SolarPunk #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Environmentalism
In 1989, as the Berlin Wall fell and Francis Fukuyama first proclaimed the “end of history,” the small college town of Ithaca, New York did something remarkable: it elected an openly socialist mayor, Benjamin (Ben) Nichols, a Red Diaper Baby and DSA member.
Nichols went on to serve three terms as mayor, from 1990-1996. There are many lessons to learn from his campaigns and his experience in governing as a pragmatic socialist. His successes encourage us to be bold and advance a transformative vision of municipal socialism; his failures teach us that local electoral work must serve social movements and help build grassroots power rather than misdirecting or co-opting our energy.
Although Nichols recognized the significant limitations of operating within the constraints of city government, he was able to accomplish a great deal while in office. In the tradition of municipal “sewer socialism” that began in the early 20th century, Nichols attempted to put the city government at the service of improving Ithacans’ lives. He led the city to successfully demand a much larger “voluntary” monetary contribution from Cornell (which does not pay taxes), created “mutual housing” governed by residents, passed ordinances supporting domestic partnerships and freedom of reproductive choice, strengthened the community police board, built the Alex Haley Pool, and made the city government function more efficiently and democratically. His accomplishments can serve as inspiration for achieving concrete victories and passing progressive legislation in towns like Ithaca.
That said, errors in political strategy & lack of attention to movement-building left Nichols isolated and vulnerable to opposition. Various policies he passed alienated elements of his fragile coalition and he was defeated by an "independent" candidate who took office in 1996. Surprisingly little has been written about this history. I plan to write more about this in the future, but I want to lay out what I see as the biggest lesson. Ben Nichols was by all accounts a very charismatic and dedicated man who ran largely on the force of his personality. He was able to assemble a progressive coalition to back his campaign, but it was all aimed at the single purpose of electing him. The coalition identified a clear enemy—the major property developers—and mobilized around progressive issues. But they never developed a substantive political program or a strategy for building grassroots power outside of the mayor’s office.
The campaign for mayor focused almost entirely on GOTV (Get Out The Vote) efforts: identifying supporters and getting them to the polls. They never attempted to win people over to a socialist program to transform Ithaca. Although these GOTV efforts were successful in electing Nichols as an individual, they did not build a committed movement base that could support him and push him from the left. That meant that when he advanced legislation that alienated elements of his coalition, he had no mass base to turn to—or to hold him accountable. Ithaca’s DSA chapter put in a large amount of work to elect Nichols, but they did not seem to maintain an organic relationship with him once in office. Movement building was subordinated to progressive electoralism, which derailed and defanged the radical grassroots energy that could have produced more transformative results.
The main lesson is that local electoral work needs to be simply one element of a broader political strategy to build power from the bottom up and promote a municipal vision of socialist transformation. The position of mayor as well as city councilors should be accountable to the grassroots base. Individuals in these positions should run on a clear political platform and serve as representatives of radical organizations and social movements. They should work to restructure and democratize the city government—for instance, by helping to establish popular assemblies with real decision-making power. We can look to Murray Bookchin’s vision of libertarian municipalism for inspiration and models.
We have many lessons to learn from this experiment in municipal socialism, including the need to put local electoralism at the service of movement building. But perhaps the greatest takeaway is simply to be bold: we can and must articulate a visionary program of municipal socialism and run campaigns on this platform. If Ithaca could elect a socialist mayor within the right-wing context of 1989, then we can certainly do it today—and so much more.
In a number of places like the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, state-funded social services are delivered through social cooperatives. #Municipalism
https://www.shareable.net/why-social-coops-offer-potential-transformation-of-care-and-more/
How ‘15-minute cities’ could save time, reduce emissions, and build community - Grist | Grist #Municipalism
https://grist.org/looking-forward/how-15-minute-cities-could-save-time-reduce-emissions-and-build-community/
Fearless Cities municipalism: experiments in autogestion | openDemocracy
#Municipalism
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/fearless-cities-municipalism-experiments-in-autogestion/
A Dialectical Left-Libertarian Political Platform
by my friend Ryan Neugebauer
https://medium.com/@ryanneugebauer/a-dialectical-left-libertarian-political-platform-a112fbb95d08
#anarchism #socialism #libertarian #libertarianleft #mutualism #marketanarchism #municipalism #politics
