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Never Give In
14th July 2007, 02:28
These two Leftist theories are rarely seen, well...anywhere. Not from what I've seen anyway. I'm having trouble researching the two. Any information on Communitarianism and Communalism? Are they related to Communism, which is kind of indicated by their names?
JRR883
14th July 2007, 04:14
Communalism and communitarianism are just ways of describing communists that aren't Marxists. It highlights the root word of "community."
Never Give In
14th July 2007, 05:15
Originally posted by [email protected] 13, 2007 11:14 pm
Communalism and communitarianism are just ways of describing communists that aren't Marxists. It highlights the root word of "community."
I see.
Janus
14th July 2007, 05:16
Any information on Communitarianism and Communalism? Are they related to Communism, which is kind of indicated by their names?
Communitarianism focuses on building strength within communities and fosters certain collectivist sentiments but it is much more political moderate than communism. Communalism, on the other hand, is very similar to communism in terms of its ultimate goals but is a bit more broader in that it encompasses many different types of communal societies.
Never Give In
14th July 2007, 05:19
Does Communalism put the interests of the Community over the interests of the individual?
Janus
14th July 2007, 05:24
Does Communalism put the interests of the Community over the interests of the individual?
Generally yes, most past communal societies have emphasized that.
Raúl Duke
14th July 2007, 13:01
Didn't Murray Bookchin called himself a communalist (or called his ideas communalism, etc)? (although he was considered and still is considered an anarchist; since, unless I'm mistaken, he labeled himself that way only to seperate himself of the lifestylism he saw in growing in anarchism; not necesarrily from anarcho-communist theory/etc...)
Janus
19th July 2007, 02:05
Yes, Bookchin's approach can be considered communalist.

the Communalist project (http://www.social-ecology.org/harbinger/vol3no1/communalist_6.html)
RedCat
21st July 2007, 21:31
In Italy Communitarianism means fascism: they are just small sects trying to infiltrate the working class mouvement recycling the right-wing paraphernalia of "fascism that is red" and so on, on behalf of State intelligencies...they are also linked with all that eurasianism bullshit, Dughin and others