Municipal Socialism

Municipal socialism is a type of socialism that uses local government to further socialist aims.

History
Municipal socialism has been used to describe public ownership of streetcar lines, waterworks, and other local utilities, as was favored by Progressives in the United States in the late 1890s/early 1900s. The term Sewer Socialism was also used to describe the pragmatic reformist policies of Emil Seidel, Daniel Hoan and Frank Zeidler, Milwaukee's three Socialist mayors in the 20th century.

The term has also been used to describe the local government-led social reform developed in the United Kingdom. This includes the reforms initiated by Joseph Chamberlain as mayor of Birmingham between 1873 and 1875. These reforms included rendering gas and water supplies public services, controlled by the government, clearing slums and the introduction of a city park system. Chamberlain's reforms were influential on Beatrice Webb, one of the leaders of the Fabian movement.

Community Wealth Building
Community wealth building is a term which covers a range of approaches which aim at improving the ability of communities and individuals to increase asset ownership, anchor jobs locally by broadening ownership over capital, help achieve key environmental goals, expand the provision of public services and ensure local economic stability. The original model, the Cleveland Model, was developed in Cleveland, United States, however the Cleveland Model has also been developed and applied with the creation of the "Preston Model", in Preston, Lancashire. It is a form of municipal socialism which utilises anchor institutions, living wage expansion, community banking, public pension investment, worker ownership and municipal enterprise tied to a procurement strategy at the municipal level.

Evergreen Co-Operatives
Evergreen is one of a number of systems of worker-owned co-operatives pioneering an alternative model of business in the United States, based on the highly successful Mondragon Corporation in the Basque Region of Spain. These systems emphasize the network aspect of the Mondragon system — a connected group of semi-autonomous businesses, each owned and controlled by its workers but part of a mutually supportive, worker-owned and worker-controlled association — as opposed to the smaller, more fragmented worker co-ops that have existed in the U.S. for many years.

How to Draw
1. Draw a ball

2. Colour it blue

3. Draw the Lamb of St Wilfred as seen on the Coat of Arms of Preston

4. Draw eyes



Friends
Market Socialism - You're the framework for a lot of what I do.

Council Communism - A more radical version of me.



Enemies
Marxism-Leninism- Stop calling us a 'bourgeois intelligentsia'



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