11/09/19 Communalism: Communalism is rooted in the development of horizontalist democratic community assemblies. Communalism is a “revolutionary political theory and practice, deeply rooted in the general socialist tradition” that would not just seek to create cooperative relations but forms that “confront capital and the basic structures of state power” (5). Communalist assemblies have bylaws, constitutions, and structures that embody terms of practice rooted in libertarian socialist principles. Such principles include but are not limited to Non-hierarchy, Direct Democracy, Co-federation, and Ecology. Community assemblies–and co-federations thereof– make policies that can be implemented by participatory committees and delegates that are mandated by community assemblies and immediately recallable by community assemblies. Embedded committees and delegates of horizontalist community assemblies do not have policy making power over and above community assemblies (1). Embedded committees of assemblies self manage within the mandates from below. Communalist assemblies have decision making processes rooted in deliberation, and cooperative conflict, and direct democracy to come to collective decisions. In a communalist society, political economic decisions are made through non-hierarchical laws and structures, in communal assemblies, through deliberation, with a majority vote when there is not full agreement, within free association in tandem with webs of non-hierarchical rights and responsibilities. Such community assemblies create embedded committees and auxiliary collectives, while also planning direct actions and mutual aid projects, while additionally helping with popular education. Communalist assemblies–and co-federations thereof– would link up together to do both oppositional and reconstructive politics at the points of extraction, production, reproduction, distribution, consumption, and at the point of the community sphere. Communalist assemblies would also prefigure such assemblies as forms of governance to exist in a post revolutionary society–rather than merely forms to bring about a revolution or merely forms for after the revolution. Communalist economics would be rooted in communal assemblies, fields, factories, and workshops, production for needs, distribution according to needs, and the sharing of self-managed work needed to reproduce daily life assisted by liberatory technology.
Communalist Especifism
Communalist Especifism
Communalist Especifism
11/09/19 Communalism: Communalism is rooted in the development of horizontalist democratic community assemblies. Communalism is a “revolutionary political theory and practice, deeply rooted in the general socialist tradition” that would not just seek to create cooperative relations but forms that “confront capital and the basic structures of state power” (5). Communalist assemblies have bylaws, constitutions, and structures that embody terms of practice rooted in libertarian socialist principles. Such principles include but are not limited to Non-hierarchy, Direct Democracy, Co-federation, and Ecology. Community assemblies–and co-federations thereof– make policies that can be implemented by participatory committees and delegates that are mandated by community assemblies and immediately recallable by community assemblies. Embedded committees and delegates of horizontalist community assemblies do not have policy making power over and above community assemblies (1). Embedded committees of assemblies self manage within the mandates from below. Communalist assemblies have decision making processes rooted in deliberation, and cooperative conflict, and direct democracy to come to collective decisions. In a communalist society, political economic decisions are made through non-hierarchical laws and structures, in communal assemblies, through deliberation, with a majority vote when there is not full agreement, within free association in tandem with webs of non-hierarchical rights and responsibilities. Such community assemblies create embedded committees and auxiliary collectives, while also planning direct actions and mutual aid projects, while additionally helping with popular education. Communalist assemblies–and co-federations thereof– would link up together to do both oppositional and reconstructive politics at the points of extraction, production, reproduction, distribution, consumption, and at the point of the community sphere. Communalist assemblies would also prefigure such assemblies as forms of governance to exist in a post revolutionary society–rather than merely forms to bring about a revolution or merely forms for after the revolution. Communalist economics would be rooted in communal assemblies, fields, factories, and workshops, production for needs, distribution according to needs, and the sharing of self-managed work needed to reproduce daily life assisted by liberatory technology.