Murray Bookchin’s Legacy of Direct Democracy

Murray Bookchin’s ideas about direct democracy were much richer than holding a plebiscite. He insisted that in major cities the place to go was city councils.

The political agitation involved wrestling the unit of city decision-making away from the city councils to the neighborhood assemblies. The neighborhood assemblies would vote on a city budget and these neighborhood assemblies would be federated into city councils which would then institute policy.

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