Title: The next revolution : Popular Assemlies and the promise of Direct Democracy /
Authors: Bookchin, Murray, 1921-2006; Bookchin, Debbie.; Taylor, Blair.
Year: 2015
Subjects: Political participation; Direct democracy.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General.; Direct democracy; Political participation
Abstract: "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"--
Contents: 1. The Communalist Project -- 2. The ecological crisis and the need to remake society -- 3. A politics for the twenty-first century -- 4. The meanng of Confederalism -- 5. Libertarian municipalism: a politics of direct democracy -- 6. Citiers: 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.