Description

In this podcast there’s a discussion of the work of Murray Bookchin, relating it to the experiences and debates around municipalism and wider left political practices and theory. The guests focus the discussion on the recent edited collection of Bookchin’s work: The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso), edited by Debbie Bookchin and Blair Taylor. Reflecting, but going beyond, the broad range of topics addressed by Bookchin in the book, participants cover a lot of ground, such as the role of the state in left politics, sources of transformative change, ‘reason’, ‘knowledge’ and politics, popular democracy, the new municipalism in Barcelona and municipal socialism in 1980s London.

Photo: Daniel Fazio