From Urbanization to Cities: The Politics of Democratic Municipalism

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    Murray Bookchin, Sixtine van Outryve d’Ydewalle

    Publisher: AK Press

    Year: 2021

    Format: Paperback

    Size: 352 pages

    ISBN: 9781849354387

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From Urbanization to Cities is a sweeping history of the city, not as a destination for capitalist exchange and individual gratification but as a locus for directly democratic politics. Just as ecosystems rely on participation and mutualism, so must cities—and their citizens—rediscover these qualities, establishing harmonious and ethical social relations. Democratic municipalism is an emancipatory philosophy of self-determination, where politics becomes an everyday act in which ordinary people and local communities take the power of decision making into their own hands. From the Paris Commune to the Kurdish-led revolution in northeast Syria, democratic municipalism is a tool for wresting power from the nation-state, allowing capitalist urbanization to give way to humanly scaled, ecological, and egalitarian societies. Includes a new introduction by Sixtine van Outryve d’Ydewalle.

About the Author

Murray Bookchin (1921–2006) was an active voice in ecology, anarchist, and communalist movements for more than fifty years. His groundbreaking essay, “Ecology and Revolutionary Thought” (1964), was one of the first to assert that capitalism’s grow-or-die ethos was on a dangerous collision course with the natural world that would include the devastation of the planet by global warming. Bookchin is the author of The Ecology of Freedom, among two dozen other books.

Sixtine van Outryve d’Ydewalle is a PhD researcher in political and legal theory at UCLouvain in Belgium. Her research focuses on the theory and practice of direct democracy from a communalist perspective, specifically on social movements struggling for local self-government in France and North America.

What People Are Saying

“This carefully reworked edition introduces a new generation of readers to Murray Bookchin’s historically informed case for reclaiming cities as the front-line of participatory democracy and ecological renewal. Never has that case been more powerfully argued, or more pertinent to the challenges of our time.” David Wengrow, co-author, with David Graeber, of The Dawn of Everything

“Bookchin gives us a useful history and a call for action.” New York Times

“The foremost Green philosopher of the age.” Independent (UK)

Book Details

Author: Murray Bookchin
Author: Sixtine van Outryve d’Ydewalle
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781849354387
Size: 352 pages
Publisher: AK Press
Year: 2021

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