The Next Revolution
Subtitle: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy
By: essays by Murray Bookchin, edited and with an introduction by Debbie Bookchin and Blair Taylor ; foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin
Contributors: Bookchin, Debbie; Taylor, Blair
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London, England; New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781781685815
Subjects: Political participation; Direct democracy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General
Other titles: Die nächste Revolution: Libertärer Kommunalismus und die Zukunft der Linken
Description: "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"--