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Cheese Sandwich

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10. Yeah. It might depend a lot on circumstances too.

Reply to socialist_n_TN (Reply #9)

Sun May 31, 2015, 11:07 AM

May 2015

I'm thinking similar to what you said, it has to be a combination of workers + communities.

Bookchin was pretty one-sided about it in saying the path is to get control of your local town council and use that power to bring the economy under democratic control. He had some reason why. Something like we already tried revolutionary workers movements and got our asses kicked.

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