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Cheese Sandwich

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5. I've been getting into Murray Bookchin lately.

Sat May 30, 2015, 05:30 PM

May 2015

He started out as a Leninist and Trotskyist when he was young, although he left it later in life.

Still there are quite a lot of similarities. He wanted to organize local democratic assemblies that would challenge the system at the local level, and link the the assemblies into confederations. Also organizing around reforms but always toward a revolutionary goal. There might be some differences too. Bookchin wanted things to be very decentralized so I suspect that's different.

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