Libertarian Municipalism as a radically reformist approach: could we learn something from the political strategy of the Extinction Rebellion?

Abstract

The aim of this contribution is to outline an adaptation of the Extinction Rebellion's third demand (creation of Citizens' Assemblies) to social-ecological design of Libertarian Municipalism. The merit of this strategical approach for the degrowth movement is an emphasis on the procedural transformation of a political institution through demanding radical reforms.

The claim is, that any revolutionary movement that wants to change a system by design rather than by disaster, needs to include not only strategies for cultural and discursive changes (creation of counter-hegemony) but also strategies for the procedural transformation of political institutions.