** Author’s Note

** 1. Politics versus Statecraft

*** Politics as Direct Democracy

*** The Recreation of Politics

** 2. The Historical City

*** The Social Realm

*** The Rise of the City

*** The Emergence of the Political Realm

** 3. Municipal Democracy: Ancient and Medieval

*** The Athenian Polis

*** The Medieval Commune

** 4. Municipal Democracy: Colonial and Revolutionary

*** The New England Town Meeting

*** The Parisian Sections

** 5. The State and Urbanization

*** The Rise of the Nation-State

*** Resistance to State Encroachment

*** Urbanization

*** The Civic Response

** 6. The Municipality

*** Decentralization

*** Democratization

*** Decision-Making Processes

** 7. Building a Movement

*** Public Education

*** Suburbia

*** Large Cities

** 8. Elections

*** The Campaign as Public Education

*** Electoral Failure

*** Libertarian Anti-electoralism

*** Extralegal Assemblies

** 9. The Formation of Citizenship

*** Citizenship

*** Paideia

*** Citizenship Today

** 10. Localism and Interdependence

*** Localism and Decentralism

** 11. Confederalism

*** Confederations in History

*** Confederal Organization

*** Policy-making versus Administration

*** Confederal Referenda

*** Assembly Supremacy

** 12. A Municipalized Economy

*** Cooperatives

*** Public Ownership

*** The Municipalization of the Economy

** 13. Dual Power

*** Dual Power

*** Fostering the Tension

*** Campaigns for State Office

*** Campaigns for Mayor

** 14. A Rational Society

*** A Moral Economy

** 15. Today’s Agenda

** Interview with Murray Bookchin

*** Today’s Harsh Social Realities

*** Identity and Universals

*** The Nature of the Movement

*** The New Society

** Appendix: 1989 Electoral Program of the Burlington Greens

*** Who Are the Burlington Greens?

*** I. Ecology and Growth

*** II. A Moral Economy

*** III. Grassroots Democracy

*** IV. Social Justice

** Appendix: For Further Reading

*** Works on Libertarian Municipalism by Murray Bookchin

*** Ancient Greek Democracy

*** Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

*** New England Town Meeting

*** The Parisian Sectional Assemblies in the French Revolution

*** Cities and Confederations in the Twentieth Century

** Note on Author