Libertarian municipalism, or on the greatness of the civil society

• Dorota Sepczynska ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

     University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

     Olsztyn, Polonia

     
• Localización: Res Publica: revista de historia de las ideas políticas, ISSN-e 1989-6115, Vol. 19, Nº. 2, 2016, págs. 355-370
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5209/RPUB.53869
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Municipalismo libertario, o sobre la grandeza de la sociedad civil
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  • español

    Este artículo pretende realizar una lectura e interpretación críticas del pensamiento político del creador del municipalismo libertario. Al mismo tiempo, es una investigación sobre una variante del libertarismo socialista contemporáneo. El artículo muestra, además, la existencia a día de hoy de un socialismo que no huye del mundo real, que no se esconde en la esfera de la indicación abstracta y que no vincula el bien común con la existencia del Estado. Murray Bookchin es uno de esos raros pensadores que no sólo alaba formalmente la sociedad civil, sino que hace una auténtica contribución al análisis de su esfera institucional, de las motivaciones de la gente en lo que respecta a la libertad de asociación y de los requisitos para un cambio del sistema. Bookchin sencillamente expone la idea de ciudadanía de una manera atractiva.

  • English

    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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