An understanding of Spain’s 15M movement’s mutation into what has been termed an “institutional takeover”. Focusing in particular on the potential ties and limitations of municipal politics, discussing the open possibilities of “Radical Municipalism” in changing political power relations in the city. It will also look at what kind of strategies are needed to create and sustain a shared project based on a broad and expansive social movement that does not define itself purely in terms of its electoral and institutional aspirations. This text is part of a larger book that brings together a selection of publications portraying transformative processes around the world that are emblematic in that they have been able to change their situated social realities in multiple ways, addressing different axes of domination simultaneously, and anticipating forms of social organization that configures alternatives to the commodifying, patriarchal, colonial, and destructive logics of modern capitalism. (from page 180 to 221)
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