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to lead an institutional organization that is bigger than
Barcelona itself, but agreed to recognize and share ideas with related initiatives that might independently spawn. With this in mind, they published their first âguide to setting up a Guanyemâ in May 2015 and another more detailed âguide to building a citizen municipal platformâ in March 2016 With this action, they provided some structure for the formation of a Ganemos/Guanyem movement, recommending that prospective groups âsupport the Guanyem Barcelona Manifesto and the text of our âPrinciples and Commitmentsâ (ES). Each platform should be rooted in its local networks and social context, share the aims and working methods of Guanyem and be led by citizens. Any person or political party that wants to be involved should accept these minimum conditions, and no Guanyem platform should be led by any political party.â
180:). For example, groups with privatized water seek to put it under city control to reduce the cost and to promote the idea that water is a human right rather than a commodity. There are also efforts to reduce high costs from monopolies and oligopolies by having the state sell the commodity for a lower price. This ideology of putting âprivatizedâ commodities into public hands is also the rhetoric used to back another fundamental pillar of Ganemos from municipalism: having environmentally friendly cities.
165:âThese adherents or opponents of libertarian municipalism, in effect, look at the civic structures that exist before their eyes now and essentially (all rhetoric to the contrary aside) take them as they exist. Libertarian municipalism, by contrast, is an effort to transform and democratize city governments, to root them in popular assemblies, to knit them together along confederal lines, to appropriate a regional economy along confederal and municipal lines.â
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Ganemos cause in local elections. Really, then, this is a question of whether and how much the end of a more purely democratic society justifies the means of exploiting current, less purely democratic institutions to get there.
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party which also spawned from 15M and the fallout of the financial crisis, and to many is culpable of what
Bookchin describes above. However, while many agree that Ganemos puts more emphasis than Podemos on being open and participatory, many Ganemos groups rely on the structural power of Podemos to
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