The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy - Softcover

Bookchin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781685819 ISBN 13: 9781781685815

Verlag: Verso, 2015

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Críticas

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 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" 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"

Reseña del editor

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."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1781685819
• ISBN 13: 9781781685815
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224