Libertarian Municipalism, or on the Greatness of the Civil Society

  • Dorota Sepczyńska University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/RPUB.53869
Keywords: Libertarian municipalism of Murray Bookchin, left-libertarianism, libertarian socialism, social ecology.

Abstract

The paper is an attempt to critically read and interpret political thought of the creator of libertarian municipalism. At the same time it is a research study on a variant of contemporary socialistic libertarianism. Besides the paper shows that there is a type of socialism today that doesn’t run away from realistic world, doesn’t hide in the sphere of abstractive advisements and doesn’t bind common good-being with the existence of the state. Murray Bookchin is one of those seldom thinkers who not only proclaim normative applause to the civil society but also make a true contribution to the analysis of its institutional sphere, people’s motivation regarding associational freedom and requirements of system’s change. Bookchin simply shows the idea of citizenship in an attractive way.

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Published
2016-10-13
How to Cite
Sepczyńska D. (2016). Libertarian Municipalism, or on the Greatness of the Civil Society. Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, 19(2), 355-370. https://doi.org/10.5209/RPUB.53869
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Vol. 19 No. 2 (2016): Libertarianism. Various Aspects of History, Theory and Strategy
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