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The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 220 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 210x140x20 mm, weight: 290 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 06-Jan-2015
  • Leidėjas: Verso Books
  • ISBN-10: 1781685819
  • ISBN-13: 9781781685815
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 220 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 210x140x20 mm, weight: 290 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 06-Jan-2015
  • Leidėjas: Verso Books
  • ISBN-10: 1781685819
  • ISBN-13: 9781781685815
"Many similarities exist between the new movements against austerity that have emerged since 2011, ranging from Taksim Square in Turkey to the Chilean student protests, and from Greece to NYC. One of them is their return to the principles of direct democracy and their organization around popular assemblies. These ideas are hardly new - Murray Bookchin, who is one of the leading anarchist thinkers of the twentieth century, has been elaborating ideas about popular assemblies for several decades that have influenced thinkers such as David Harvey. The Next Revolution brings together Bookchin's writings on popular assemblies for the first time, just as his ideas are rekindling the radical imagination worldwide"--

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide range of political thinkers and social movements.

With a foreword by the best-selling author of The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Next Revolution brings together Bookchin’s essays on freedom and direct democracy for the first time, offering a bold political vision that can move us from protest to social transformation.

Recenzijos

Over the years, Murray Bookchin has dedicated his remarkable talents and energy to many different domains: history, technology, social organization, the search for justice and freedom, and much else. In every case, he has brought illumination and insight, original and provocative ideas, and inspiring vision. His new collection on radical democracy carries forward this lifetime of great achievement. -- Noam Chomsky By far the most sophisticated radical proposal to deal with the creation and collective use of the commons across a variety of scales, and is well worth elaborating as part of the radical anticapitalist agenda. -- David Harvey, author of Rebel Cities Murray Bookchin is one of the most original and important radical thinkers and writers of the modern era. He understands the destructive force of corporate capitalism and the revolutionary zeal it will take to extricate ourselves from its grip. -- Chris Hedges, author of Wages of Rebellion As an introduction to the thought of Murray Bookchin it is incredibly valuable and serves to motivate deeper engagement with his more detailed works on urbanization, social ecology, and 'libertarian municipalism.' * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *

Daugiau informacijos

The ideas about political organization that have animated the new radical movements worldwide
Foreword ix
Ursula K. Le Guin
Introduction xiii
Debbie Bookchin
Blair Taylor
1 The Communalist Project
1(30)
2 The Ecological Crisis and the Need to Remake Society
31(12)
3 A Politics for the Twenty-First Century
43(24)
4 The Meaning of Confederalism
67(16)
5 Libertarian Municipalism: A Politics of Direct Democracy
83(14)
6 Cities: The Unfolding of Reason in History
97(12)
7 Nationalism and the "National Question"
109(30)
8 Anarchism and Power in the Spanish Revolution
139(6)
9 The Future of the Left
145(50)
Acknowledgements 195(2)
Further Reading 197
Murray Bookchin was an active voice in the ecology and anarchist movements for more than forty years, and is the author of The Ecology of Freedom and Post-Scarcity Anarchism, among many other books.