(en) Communalism is a political theory which asks two correlated questions: that of the principal political unit allowing a people to govern itself and that of the mode of exercising power. It answers by defending the commune as the main political unit, where power would be exercised in direct democracy in the form of local popular assemblies, open to all, which would confederate among themselves.We first present communalism as conceived by the American thinker Murray Bookchin (1921-2006), its main theorist, and then other uses of this concept that allow us to discuss its theory.
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