Get the Loneliness mug.Scaled-up versions of neighborhood systems, encompassing a larger district like a village, town, or city ward. Local Assemblies are the sovereign decision-making bodies for that territory, potentially federating with other assemblies. Local Communes are the implementation of communist or anarchist principles at this scale, where the assembly collectively owns and manages major local resources (housing, utilities, workshops), abolishes private property in favor of usership, and organizes production for local need. They represent a vision of politics as a daily, participatory activity rather than a spectacle every few years.
Example: In a small de-industrialized town, the city council is corrupt and powerless. Citizens form a Local Assembly in the old union hall, open to all residents. It becomes the real governing body. They transition to a Local Commune by taking over a shuttered factory to run it co-operatively, converting empty homes into communal housing based on need, and creating a local currency for trade with other communes. The police are replaced by community peacekeepers accountable to the assembly. The commune becomes a self-sufficient, directly democratic cell. Local Assemblies and Local Communes.
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A principle advocating for the devolution of political and fiscal power to the most local level of government possible (cities, towns, counties). The argument, known as subsidiarity, is that decisions are more accountable, responsive, and innovative when made close to those affected. It can exist within both capitalist and socialist frameworks and is often a rallying cry against centralized state or corporate control.
Example: The Participatory Budgeting process in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where city residents directly decide how to allocate a portion of the municipal budget, is a celebrated innovation in Local Democracy. It shifts power from city hall technocrats to community assemblies in neighborhoods.
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Get the Local Democracy mug.A reiteration of the Local Democracy principle, reinforcing the idea that the local unit isn't just one level among many, but the primary source of democratic legitimacy and power. Higher levels of governance are seen as service providers or coordinators for the local units, not rulers over them.
Example: The Swiss canton system, particularly in small cantons like Glarus and Appenzell Innerrhoden that still hold annual Landsgemeinde (open-air assemblies), exemplifies Local-Based Democracy. Cantons retain immense sovereignty, and the federal government’s power is constitutionally limited, preserving local primacy.
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Get the Local-Based Democracy mug.A governance philosophy and social model organized around the principle of subsidiarity: all decisions and powers should reside at the most local level possible. A "local-based society" views the neighborhood, town, or city as the primary and most legitimate scale of human organization. Higher levels of governance (county, region, nation) exist only to handle tasks explicitly beyond local capacity, and they derive their authority from the consent of the local units. This model seeks to maximize accountability, cultural specificity, and civic engagement by rooting power where people live their daily lives.
Example: Switzerland's cantonal system is a strong real-world approximation of a Local-Based Society. Cantons (and even communes within them) have immense autonomy over taxation, education, and law. The federal government's powers are constitutionally limited, preserving local sovereignty. This is why two neighboring Swiss villages can have radically different tax rates and school systems.
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1. A person who experiences extreme loneliness, often feeling isolated or overlooked in social situations.
2. Someone consistently excluded from gatherings, activities, or group invitations.
1. A person who experiences extreme loneliness, often feeling isolated or overlooked in social situations.
2. Someone consistently excluded from gatherings, activities, or group invitations.
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Get the Lonely Suckatoo mug.Integrating yourself into a nations local society with similar behavior or actions as the native population, especially in Japan.
Daniel, Ethan, and I were Localmaxxing and sipping Pocari Sweat in the Osaka metro, whilst Timmy and Jackson behaved like tourists.
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