The next revolution : popular assemblies and the promise of direct democracy /
By: Bookchin, Murray [author.].
Contributor(s): Bookchin, Debbie [edior,, writer of introduction.] | Taylor, Blair (Writer on democracy) [edior,, writer of introduction.] | Le Guin, Ursula K [writer of foreword.].
Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2015Description: xxii, 198 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781781685815; 9781781685815:; 1781685819; 9781781685808; 1781685800.Subject(s): Political participation | Direct democracy | Anarchism
DDC classification: 321.8 BOO | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Standard Loan
|
ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 321.8 BOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0082620 |
Includes bibliographical references.
1. The Communalist Project -- 2. The ecological crisis and the need to remake society -- 3. A politics for the twenty-first century -- 4. The meaning of Confederalism -- 5. Libertarian municipalism: a politics of direct democracy -- 6. Cities: the unfolding of reason in history -- 7. Nationalism and the "national question" -- 8. Anarchism and power in the Spanish Revolution -- 9. The future of the Left.
"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"--
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 20th century, has been elaborating ideas about popular assemblies for several decades that have influenced thinkers such as David Harvey. This book brings together Bookchin's writings on popular assemblies.