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<blockquote>''Not to be confused with the fictional [[File:Communalist.png]] [[Communalism]].''</blockquote>
 
{{Ideology
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|title = [[File:Bckchn.png]] Bookchin Communalism
|title = [[File:Bckchn.png]] Libertarian Municipalism
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|image = Bookchin Communalism-HQ-Portrait.png
|caption = Google Me!
|caption = "The ecological crisis is a social crisis!"
|aliases = Social Ecology <br> Libertarian Municipalism <br> Bookchinism <br> Real Communalism
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Social Ecology <br>  
[[File:Prgess.png]] [[:Category:Culturally Left|Cultural Left]] <br>
Bookchin Communalism <br>  
[[File:Libertarian.png]] [[:Category:Libertarians|Libertarians]] <br>
Bookchinism <br>  
[[File:Awaj.png]] [[:Category:Anarchists|Anarchists]] <br>
Real Communalism <br>
[[File:Envi.png]] [[:Category:Environmentalists|Environmentalists]] <br>
Bookchinite <br>
[[File:Soc.png]] [[:Category:Socialists|Socialists]] <br>
Eco-Communalism <br>
[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[:Category:Communists|Communists]]
[[File:Libecosoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism|Libertarian]] [[Eco-Socialism]] <br>
<br>
[[File:CuckShit.png]] Cuckshit Communalism (Pejoratively) <br>
[[File:World.png]] [[:Category:Internationalists|Internationalists]]  <br> [[File:Fem.png]] [[:Category:Feminists|Feminists]]
{{Alias|Anin.png|Anarcho-Individualism|[[File:Left-Hoppeanism.png]] Leftist Hoppeanism}}
|definition =|song =|founder = [[wp:Murray Bookchin|Murray Bookchin]] (1921-2006)
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|likes=The Environment
[[File:Libleft.png]] [[:Category:Libertarian Left|LibLeft]] <br>
Communes
[[File:Prgess.png]] [[:Category:Culturally Left|Culturally Left]] <br>
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[[File:LeftBert.png]] [[:Category:Libertarians|Libertarians]] <br>
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[[File:Awaj.png]] [[:Category:Anarchists|Anarchists]] (Sometimes)<br>
[[File:Envi.png]] [[:Category:Environmentalists|Ecologists]] <br>
[[File:Soc-h.png]] [[:Category:Socialists|Socialists]] <br>
[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[:Category:Communists|Communists]] <br>
[[File:Internat.png]] [[:Category:Internationalists|Internationalists]]  <br>  
[[File:Fem.png]] [[:Category:Feminists|Feminists]]
 
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[[File:AntiIndiv.png]] [[mh:philosophyball:Anti-Individualism|Anti-Lifestylism]]<br>
[[File:Ancom.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism]] <br>
[[File:Athdem.png]] [[Athenian Democracy]] <br>
[[File:Ecosoc.png]] [[Eco-Socialism]] <br>
[[File:Aneco.png]] [[Eco-Anarchism]] <br>
[[File:Enlightenment.png]] [[Enlightenment Thought]] <br>
[[File:Libsoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism]] <br>
[[File:Local.png]] [[Localism]] <br>
[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] <br>
[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] <br>
[[File:Envi.png]] [[Environmentalism]] <br>
[[File:Postscarc.png]] {{PCBA|Post-Scarcity Anarchism}} <br>
[[File:Libsoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism]] <br>
[[File:Socan2.png]] [[Social Anarchism]] <br>
[[File:Ecosoc.png]] [[Eco-Socialism]] <br>  
 
[[File:Aneco.png]] [[Eco-Anarchism]] <br>|influenced=[[File:Demcon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism]] <br>}}
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'''Bookchin Communalism ''' is a far left, [[File:Libsoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism|Libertarian Socialist]], [[File:Prgess.png]] [[:Category:Culturally Left|socially progressive]], and sometimes [[File:Awaj.png]] [[:Category:Anarchists|Anarchist]] ideology with an extreme emphasis on [[File:Envi.png]] [[Environmentalism]], based on the political, philosophical, and sociological ideas of [[wp:Murray_Bookchin|Murray Bookchin]].  
[[File:Demcon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism]] <br>
[[File:GreensUS.png]] {{PCBA|American_Greenism|American Greenism}} <br>  
[[File:Antr.png]] [[Anarcho-Transhumanism]]
 
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*[[File:FrenchMunicipalism.png]] '''French Municipalism''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Globnat.png]] [[Alter-Globalism]]
**[[File:LRpop.png]] {{PCBA|Fusion Populism}}
**[[File:Synthesisanarchy.png]] [[Synthesis Anarchism]]
**[[File:Mutalist.png]] [[Mutualism]]
**[[File:Ancom.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism|Libertarian Communism]]
**[[File:Situ.png]] [[Situationism]]
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|theorists =
*[[File:MurrayBookchin.png]] [[Eco-Anarchism|Murray Bookchin]] (1921-2006) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
*[[File:Blackan.png]] [[Black Anarchism|Modibo Kadalie]] (1949-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
*[[File:D-Bookchin.png]] [[Mediacracy|Debbie Bookchin]] (-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 
|likes=The Environment<br>
Communes<br>
Decentralisation<br>
Dunkin' Donuts
|dislikes=[[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]]<br>
Hierarchy<br>
Lifestylism<br>
[[File:Antihuman.png]] {{PCBA|Misanthropy|Misanthropy}}<br>
[[File:Communalist.png]] [[Communalism|Non-sensical name thief]]
|song =
[https://youtu.be/-Fsxvkc2f1Q Bookchin's Descent] <br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeZ9UnDrOo The Automation Song] <br>
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'''Libertarian Municipalism''', also known as '''Bookchin Communalism''', is a far left, [[File:Libsoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism|Libertarian Socialist]], [[File:Prgess.png]] [[:Category:Culturally Left|socially progressive]], and sometimes [[File:Awaj.png]] [[:Category:Anarchists|Anarchist]] ideology with an extreme emphasis on [[File:Envi.png]] [[Environmentalism]], based on the political, philosophical, and sociological ideas of [[w:Murray_Bookchin|Murray Bookchin]].  


Bookchin Communalism believes in a stateless, classless, society where hierarchy is reduced as much as possible and is organized into eco-communes that participate in federalism, most private property being made communal.
Bookchin Communalism believes in a stateless, classless, society where hierarchy is reduced as much as possible and is organized into eco-communes that participate in federalism, most private property being made communal.


== History ==
==History==
Murray Bookchin was born to Jewish immigrants and from a very young age was heavily influence by his [[File:Soc.png]] [[Socialism|Socialist]] Grandmother. This led him to be involved with the [[File:ML.png]] [[wp:Young Communist League USA|Young Communist League USA]] and hold what he would later describe as [[File:Stalin.png]] [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] views. However, after studying more [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism|Marxist]] literature in his late teens he would shift to a [[File:Trot.png]] [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] perspective. He became a factory worker and unionizer through the 1940's and over that period of time his belief in [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxism-Leninism]] in general began to wane, moving towards a more general Marxist position.
Murray Bookchin was born to Jewish immigrants and from a very young age was heavily influenced by his [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism|Socialist]] Grandmother. This led him to be involved with the [[File:ML.png]] [[w:Young Communist League USA|Young Communist League USA]] and hold what he would later describe as [[File:Stalin.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Stalinist]] views. However, after studying more [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism|Marxist]] literature in his late teens he would shift to a [[File:Trot.png]] [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] perspective. He became a factory worker and unionizer through the 1940's and over that period of time his belief in [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] in general began to wane, moving towards a more general Marxist position.


He began taking inspiration from more [[File:Ancom.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism|Anarchist]] writers like [[wp:Peter Kroprotkin|Peter Kroprotkin]], particularly liking their views on hierarchy, seeing it as more wholistic than contemporary Marxists. From here he developed his idea of post-scarcity, which he intertwined with his strong views in the growing [[File:Envi.png]] [[Environmentalism|Environmentalist]] movement. This would culminate in his book [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-1 ''Post-Scarcity Anarchism''] (1971), in which he would outline these beliefs. His concept of [[wp:Social ecology (Bookchin)|Social Ecology]], that the ecological crisis is actually a social crisis, would become one of the prominent focuses of his work premiering in his most well known work, ''[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom The Ecology of Freedom]'' (1982). In which he laid out that socially dominating societal structures (specifically the [[File:Sec.png]] [[Authoritarianism|State]] and [[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]]) lead to a society which dominates and destroys nature, instead he proposed society be organized into federations/confederations of ecological, [[File:Dem.png]] [[Democracy|Directly Democratic]], communes. This would later become known as Communalism. He thought the best way to achieve this society was to organize communities into revolutionary, confederated, municipalities that would adhere to Communalist principles; this is known as [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-libertarian-municipalism-an-overview Libertarian Municipalism].  
He began taking inspiration from more [[File:Ancom.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism|Anarchist]] writers like [[w:Peter Kroprotkin|Peter Kroprotkin]], particularly liking their views on hierarchy, seeing it as more wholistic than contemporary Marxists. From here he developed his idea of post-scarcity, which he intertwined with his strong views in the growing [[File:Envi.png]] [[Environmentalism|Environmentalist]] movement. This would culminate in his book [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-1 ''Post-Scarcity Anarchism''] (1971), in which he would outline these beliefs. His concept of [[w:Social ecology (Bookchin)|Social Ecology]], that the ecological crisis is actually a social crisis, would become one of the prominent focuses of his work premiering in his most well known work, ''[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom The Ecology of Freedom]'' (1982). In which he laid out that socially dominating societal structures (specifically the [[File:Sec.png]] [[Authoritarianism|State]] and [[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]]) lead to a society which dominates and destroys nature, instead he proposed society be organized into federations/confederations of ecological, [[File:Directdem.png]] [[Democracy#Direct_Democracy|Directly Democratic]], communes. This would later become known as Communalism. He thought the best way to achieve this society was to organize communities into revolutionary, confederated, municipalities that would adhere to Communalist principles; this is known as [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-libertarian-municipalism-an-overview Libertarian Municipalism].  


Bookchin would begin his break with [[File:Awaj.png]] [[Anarchism]] with his 1995 work ''[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-social-anarchism-or-lifestyle-anarchism-an-unbridgeable-chasm Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism]'' in which he harshly criticized what he called [[File:Anin.png]] [[Anarcho-Individualism|Lifestyle Anarchism]]. This break would be cemented in 2002 with ''[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-communalist-project The Communalist Project,]'' in which he declared Communalism a unique revolutionary tradition that is distinct from, but takes the best parts of, Marxism and Anarchism. Although not all adherents of Communalism consider it separate from Anarchism and as such consider themselves Anarchists. In 2004, Bookchin had [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-authors-bookchin-ocalan-correspondence#toc6 brief correspondence] with [[wp:Abdullah Öcalan|Abdullah Öcalan]], an imprisoned Kurdish revolutionary leader and student of Bookchin, who went on to formulate [[File:Demcon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism]] as a practical application of Communalism in Kurdistan. However, Bookchin could not communicate much with Öcalan because of a mix of his declining health and Öcalan's solitary confinement, dying in 2006.  
Bookchin would begin his break with [[File:Awaj.png]] [[Anarchism]] with his 1995 work ''[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-social-anarchism-or-lifestyle-anarchism-an-unbridgeable-chasm Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism]'' in which he harshly criticized what he called [[File:Anin.png]] [[Anarcho-Individualism|Lifestyle Anarchism]]. This break would be cemented in 2002 with ''[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-communalist-project The Communalist Project,]'' in which he declared Communalism a unique revolutionary tradition that is distinct from, but takes the best parts of, Marxism and Anarchism. Although not all adherents of Communalism consider it separate from Anarchism and as such consider themselves Anarchists. In 2004, Bookchin had [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-authors-bookchin-ocalan-correspondence#toc6 brief correspondence] with [[w:Abdullah Öcalan|Abdullah Öcalan]], an imprisoned Kurdish revolutionary leader and student of Bookchin, who went on to formulate [[File:Demcon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism]] as a practical application of Communalism in Kurdistan. However, Bookchin could not communicate much with Öcalan because of a mix of his declining health and Öcalan's solitary confinement, dying in 2006.


== How to Draw ==
==Variants==
The Communalism design is based on the "[https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/b0x6o6/libertarian_ecosocialist_flag/ Libertarian Ecosocialist flag]" by u/TheIenzo.
 
===[[File:FrenchMunicipalism.png]] '''French Municipalism'''===
The French Municipalism is a political movement portrayed by the "Mouvement Municipal" / Municipalist Movement.
 
This ideology advocates for a social union between french workers, no matter their cultural alignment : in the Municipalist Movement, members can share [[File:Trad.png]] traditionalist and [[File:Prog-u.png]] progressive views, as long as they are not based upon identity politics, and as long as they advocate for a Municipalist ideology and praxis.
This school of thought considers the possibility of a [[File:Mutalist.png]] [[Mutualism]] transitional status before achieving [[File:Ancom.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism]].
 
==How to Draw==
The Communalism design is based on the "[https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/b0x6o6/libertarian_ecosocialist_flag/ Libertarian Ecosocialist flag]" by u/TheIenzo. It is simply a mirrored [[File:Ancom.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism|anarcho-communist]] flag with a leaf across the center.
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== Relationships ==
==Relationships==
=== Friendly ===
===Friendly===
*[[File:Ancom.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism]] - Your takes on hierarchy are based, but sometimes not practical.
*[[File:Ancom.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism]] - Your takes on hierarchy are based, but they have no historical context.
*[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] - Good analysis but needs updating.
*[[File:Demcon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism]] - My child and an attempt at applying me to the real world.
*[[File:Envi.png]] [[Environmentalism]] - The ecological crisis is a social crisis!
*[[File:Aneco.png|frameless]] [[Eco-Anarchism]] - We're basically the same ideology, although I'm a bit more leftist.
*[[File:Demcon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism]] - My child and an attempt at applying me.
 
=== Mixed ===
===Mixed===
*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] - Overly economistic and authoritarian.
*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] - Overly economistic and authoritarian.
=== Negative ===
*[[File:Envi.png]] [[Environmentalism]] - I'm an ecologist, not an environmentalist! Environmentalism is liberal and rejects social ecology.
*[[File:Communalist.png]] [[Communalism (Unhistorical)|Communalism]] - GIVE ME MY NAME BACK, YOUR IDEOLOGY DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE!
*[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] - Good analysis, though kind of outdated.
*[[File:Soul.png]] [[Soulism]] - Based views, but you are still too focused on yourself, and you are often sleeping, instead of doing something useful. Why not be at least a communal night shift janitor?
**[[File:Soul.png]] - '''*waking up after long term "shift" (time ratio 1 CR min = 5 years in DR)*'''...Uhhh. What is that place? And why the hell is that weird guy looking at me?
 
===Negative===
*[[File:Communalist.png]] [[Communalism]] - GIVE ME MY NAME BACK, YOUR IDEOLOGY DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE!
*[[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] - The cancer cell ideology that is killing the environment.
*[[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] - The cancer cell ideology that is killing the environment.
*[[File:Anin.png]] [[Anarcho-Individualism]] - Lifestylist trash!
*[[File:Anin.png]] [[Anarcho-Individualism]], [[File:Anego.png]] [[Anarcho-Egoism]] & [[File:Anpostleft.png]] [[Post-Leftism]] - Lifestylist trash!
*[[File:Deepe.png]] [[Deep Ecology]] - Fake Ecology.
*[[File:Deepe.png]] [[Deep Ecology]] - Fake ecology.
*[[File:Ecofash.png]] [[Eco-Fascism]] - Malthusian garbage!
*[[File:Ecofash.png]] [[Eco-Fascism]] & [[File:Anti-Natalism.png]] [[Antinatalism]] - Malthusian garbage!
*[[File:Tucn-EcoAuth.png|frameless]] [[Eco-Authoritarianism]] - Oxymoron
*[[File:Tucn-EcoAuth.png]] [[Eco-Authoritarianism]] - Oxymoron.
*[[File:Ecocap.png]] [[Eco-Capitalism]] - Another oxymoron.
* [[File:Annil.png]] [[Anarcho-Nihilism]] - Lifestylist, misanthropic, doesn't care about society and the environment? Die.
*[[File:Illeg.png]] [[Illegalism]] - Worst lifestylist scum, fuck you.
*[[File:Anprim.png]] [[Anarcho-Primitivism]] & [[File:Prim.png]] [[Primalism]] - Your analysis of primitive life is completely ahistorical!
* [[File:Avar.png]] [[Avaritionism]] - '''FUCK YOU YOU STUPID GREEDY EGOIST MURDERER WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABORTED! IF SOMEONE NEEDS TO COMMIT SUICIDE IT SHOULD BE YOU AND YOUR MICROSCOPICAL BRAIN WITH LEUKEMIA!'''
* [[File:Ecocorp.png]] [[Corporatocracy]] - '''REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, YOU DAMN DIRTY POLLUTER! EVEN YOUR ECO MASK IS AWFUL!'''


== Further Information ==
==Further Information==
=== Literature ===
===Literature===
*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom ''The Ecology of Freedom''] (1982) by [[wikipedia:Murray Bookchin|Murray Bookchin]]
*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom ''The Ecology of Freedom''] (1982) by [[wikipedia:Murray Bookchin|Murray Bookchin]]
*''[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-communalist-project The Communalist Project]'' (2002) by [[wikipedia:Murray Bookchin|Murray Bookchin]]
*''[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-communalist-project The Communalist Project]'' (2002) by [[wikipedia:Murray Bookchin|Murray Bookchin]]
*[https://libcom.org/files/Post-Scarcity%20Anarchism%20-%20Murray%20Bookchin.pdf ''Post Scarcity Anarchism''] (1971) by [[wp:Murray Bookchin|Murray Bookchin]]
*[https://libcom.org/files/Post-Scarcity%20Anarchism%20-%20Murray%20Bookchin.pdf ''Post Scarcity Anarchism''] (1971) by [[w:Murray Bookchin|Murray Bookchin]]
=== Online Communities ===
*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lewis-herber-murray-bookchin-ecology-and-revolutionary-thought ''Ecology and Revolutionary Thought''] (1964) by Lewis Herber ([[w:Murray Bookchin|Murray Bookchin]])
*''[https://www.marxists.org/archive/bookchin/1969/listen-marxist.htm Listen, Marxist!]'' (1969) by [[wikipedia:Murray Bookchin|Murray Bookchin]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112041157/https://social-ecology.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Social-Ecology-Pamphlet-Emily-McGuire.pdf Social Ecology Pamphlet] (2018) by Emily McGuire
*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/edited-by-federico-venturini-emet-degirmenci-ines-morales-social-ecology-and-the-right-to-the-c Social Ecology and the Right to the City Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities] (2019) by the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE).
 
===Online Communities===
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/Communalists/ r/Communalists]
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/Communalists/ r/Communalists]
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/TOTALCOMMUNALISM/ r/TOTALCOMMUNALISM]
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/TOTALCOMMUNALISM/ r/TOTALCOMMUNALISM]


=== Organizations ===
===Wikipedia===
*[[w:Murray Bookchin|Murray Bookchin]]
*[[w:Communalism|Communalism]]
*[[w:Social ecology (Bookchin)|Social Ecology]]
*[[w:Libertarian_municipalism|Libertarian Municipalism]]
 
===Websites===


* [https://social-ecology.org/wp/ Institute for Social Ecology]
*[https://social-ecology.org/wp/ Institute for Social Ecology]
* [https://www.symbiosis-revolution.org/ Symbiosis]
*[https://www.symbiosis-revolution.org/ Symbiosis]
*[https://harbinger-journal.com/ Harbinger Journal]
*[https://harbinger-journal.com/ Harbinger Journal]
*[http://mouvement-municipal.fr/ Mouvement Municipal]


=== Wikipedia ===
==Gallery==
*[[wp:Murray Bookchin|Murray Bookchin]]
*[[wp:Communalism|Communalism]]
*[[wp:Social ecology (Bookchin)|Social Ecology]]
 
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Libertarian Municipalism, also known as Bookchin Communalism, is a far left, Libertarian Socialist, socially progressive, and sometimes Anarchist ideology with an extreme emphasis on Environmentalism, based on the political, philosophical, and sociological ideas of Murray Bookchin.

Bookchin Communalism believes in a stateless, classless, society where hierarchy is reduced as much as possible and is organized into eco-communes that participate in federalism, most private property being made communal.

History

Murray Bookchin was born to Jewish immigrants and from a very young age was heavily influenced by his Socialist Grandmother. This led him to be involved with the Young Communist League USA and hold what he would later describe as Stalinist views. However, after studying more Marxist literature in his late teens he would shift to a Trotskyist perspective. He became a factory worker and unionizer through the 1940's and over that period of time his belief in Marxism–Leninism in general began to wane, moving towards a more general Marxist position.

He began taking inspiration from more Anarchist writers like Peter Kroprotkin, particularly liking their views on hierarchy, seeing it as more wholistic than contemporary Marxists. From here he developed his idea of post-scarcity, which he intertwined with his strong views in the growing Environmentalist movement. This would culminate in his book Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971), in which he would outline these beliefs. His concept of Social Ecology, that the ecological crisis is actually a social crisis, would become one of the prominent focuses of his work premiering in his most well known work, The Ecology of Freedom (1982). In which he laid out that socially dominating societal structures (specifically the State and Capitalism) lead to a society which dominates and destroys nature, instead he proposed society be organized into federations/confederations of ecological, Directly Democratic, communes. This would later become known as Communalism. He thought the best way to achieve this society was to organize communities into revolutionary, confederated, municipalities that would adhere to Communalist principles; this is known as Libertarian Municipalism.

Bookchin would begin his break with Anarchism with his 1995 work Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism in which he harshly criticized what he called Lifestyle Anarchism. This break would be cemented in 2002 with The Communalist Project, in which he declared Communalism a unique revolutionary tradition that is distinct from, but takes the best parts of, Marxism and Anarchism. Although not all adherents of Communalism consider it separate from Anarchism and as such consider themselves Anarchists. In 2004, Bookchin had brief correspondence with Abdullah Öcalan, an imprisoned Kurdish revolutionary leader and student of Bookchin, who went on to formulate Democratic Confederalism as a practical application of Communalism in Kurdistan. However, Bookchin could not communicate much with Öcalan because of a mix of his declining health and Öcalan's solitary confinement, dying in 2006.

Variants

French Municipalism

The French Municipalism is a political movement portrayed by the "Mouvement Municipal" / Municipalist Movement.

This ideology advocates for a social union between french workers, no matter their cultural alignment : in the Municipalist Movement, members can share traditionalist and progressive views, as long as they are not based upon identity politics, and as long as they advocate for a Municipalist ideology and praxis. This school of thought considers the possibility of a Mutualism transitional status before achieving Anarcho-Communism.

How to Draw

The Communalism design is based on the "Libertarian Ecosocialist flag" by u/TheIenzo. It is simply a mirrored anarcho-communist flag with a leaf across the center.

Flag of Libertarian Municipalism
  1. Draw a ball.
  2. Draw a thin leaf shape cutting across the ball from the stem at bottom right, to the tip at top left,
  3. Colour the left half of the leaf a lighter shade of green (#44AA00), and the right half, a darker shade of green (#008000).
  4. Colour the area below the leaf black (#141414), but not pure black.
  5. Colour the area above the leaf red (#D40E00).
  6. Add the eyes and congratulations, you have drawn Communalism!
Color Name HEX RGB
Light Green #44AA00 68, 170, 0
Dark Green #008000 0, 128, 0
Black #141414 20, 20, 20
Red #D40A00 212, 10, 0


Relationships

Friendly

Mixed

  • Marxism–Leninism - Overly economistic and authoritarian.
  • Environmentalism - I'm an ecologist, not an environmentalist! Environmentalism is liberal and rejects social ecology.
  • Marxism - Good analysis, though kind of outdated.
  • Soulism - Based views, but you are still too focused on yourself, and you are often sleeping, instead of doing something useful. Why not be at least a communal night shift janitor?
    • - *waking up after long term "shift" (time ratio 1 CR min = 5 years in DR)*...Uhhh. What is that place? And why the hell is that weird guy looking at me?

Negative

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  • Credit: u/TheLegend2T, source

    Credit: u/TheLegend2T, source

  • Credit: u/Duy_physics, source

    Credit: u/Duy_physics, source

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