to quote a comment I found, because it puts it better than I could;
"Murray Bookchin's concept of communalism and his follower Abdullah Öcalan's similar concept of democratic confederalism. It can be summed up as "refocusing politics around local government by popular assemblies, while higher levels of government being confederations of these local units". Thus communalism does mean there would still be a state, although far more decentralised. This was one reason why Bookchin stopped calling himself an anarchist, though his disillusionment with the '90s the anarchist scene was another."
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libertarian municipalism + communalism, a kind of libertarian socialism
with social ecology as the philosophy framing our situation
Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971);
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post...
some use the meme of "google Murray Bookchin", because once you get into their work, so much of it makes good sense (and their polemic bits are funny too)
a really good podcast on Murray;
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin
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and there's the adapted democratic confederalism of Ocalan, which is actually used in Rojava (Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria)
https://nybooks.com/online/2018/06/15/how-my-fathers-ideas-h...
this is the group that was US aligned until Trump said no, which allowed Turkey to do a land-grab and dispossess folk
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