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Municipal socialism is a type of socialism that uses local government to further socialist aims. It is a form of municipalism in which its explicitly socialist aims are clearly stated. In some contexts the word "municipalism" was tainted with the concept of provincialism. However, when it was adopted by various socialist networks in the late nineteenth century, this approach to socialist transformation spread across Europe and North America.[1] Following electoral success in a number of localities, by the early twentieth century discussion of municipal socialism took on a more practical character, as Edgard Milhaud, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Geneva.[2] established Annales de la Régie Directe, an academic journal which set out to scientifically examine the initial steps towards transforming areas previously dominated by private enterprise into new forms of public service.[1] This journal contributed to a growing network of municipal socialists in Europe and North America, in which three types of movements were united at a local level: trade unions particularly of municipally run public services such as gas, transport, sewage etc., consumer and industrial co-operatives, and other associations of consumers including tenants groups opposed to price and rent increases.[1]
- ^ a b c Dogliani, Patrizia (2002). "European Municipalism in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Socialist Network" (PDF). Contemporary European History. 11 (4): 573–596. doi:10.1017/S0960777302004046. ISSN 0960-7773. JSTOR 20081861. S2CID 161327546.
- ^ Prix nobel de la paix; candidature de M. Edgard Milhaud, Professeur d'économie politique à l'Université de Genève (in French), Geneva: Journal de Genève, 1948, p. 43, retrieved 2017-08-28