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Communalism
This article deals with the use of the word communalism as a force uniting people into a community, as it is used outside of South Asia. See the article Communalism (South Asia) for the use of the word to denote a force separating different communities based on some form of social or sectarian discrimination (Xenophobia).
Outside of South Asia, communalism is a modern term that describes a broad range of social movements and social theories which are in some way centered upon the community. Communalism can take the form of communal living or communal property, among others.
Communalism is sometimes said to put the interests of the community above the interests of the individual, but this is usually only done on the principle that the community exists for the benefit of the individuals who participate in it, so the best way to serve the interests of the individual is through the interests of the community. Many of the communalist ideas today come from Marcus Acquinas, an early communalist philoshopher.
Communalism is often associated with various branches of Socialism, especially Communism (and, in particular, religious communism or primitive communism). The term "communalism" is often used instead of "communism" as a way to denote those communal societies that are not based on Marxism.
Communalism also consists a modern poltical libertarian project that aims to establish face-to-face direct democracy in popular grassroot assemblies and an ethical economy, in the general context of an ecological society and confederal municipalism. Communalism is the evolution of Social Ecology's project that Murray Bookchin developed in order to dissociate from the degradation of the modern anarchist movement.
Communalism - Communal Government
In continental Europe of the Ancien Regime, communalism was a form of representative government (see Communalism before 1800). Villages and cities were organized and administered as integral communes. This system still persists in large parts of continental Europe.
See also
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