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One of the major questions faced by the inheritors of the networked global uprisings of 2010--2011 is how to harness the demands and practices that emerged from these movements, and those that followed in their wake, to create new ways of doing electoral politics. A municipalist movement in Rosario, Argentina, may just have some of the answers.
Institutional politics is facing a crisis of legitimacy. Traditional political parties, with their professionalized, hierarchical way of operating and financial dependence on banks and corporations, have become increasingly discredited in the eyes of the growing number of people seeking new, more direct forms of democracy. In this context, activists, social movements and new political organizations across the world are confronted with a common dilemma: how to engage electorally and politically within state institutions without being co-opted or corrupted by them.
