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kore wrote on January 8, 2018 at 1:52 AM

Wary from the start, confirmed when I read "dance with" nature. Bookchin warned against any sort of mysticism or eccentricity that is present in fields like deep ecology, and this theory seems needlessly eccentric and a bit mystic.

Communalism is the name given to the whole of social ecology as developed by Murray Bookchin

Communalism militantly supports reason, modernity and the values of the Enlightenment, positive liberty, Civilisation (i.e. "civitas", or the city and the body politic that inhabits it), as well as the idea of a meaningful History and the possibility of Progress.

Communalism is not a hard and rigid ideology, but a coherent unfolding body of ideas built upon a core set of principles and institutions. It is a process to be applied organically to local cultural, historical, and ecological contexts.