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

Author:   Murray Bookchin ,  Debbie Bookchin ,  Blair Taylor ,  Ursula Le Guin
Publisher:   Verso Books
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9781781685815


Pages:   220
Publication Date:   06 January 2015
Format:   Paperback
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The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy


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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. A pioneering voice in the ecology and anarchist movements, he is the author of The Ecology of Freedom and Post-Scarcity Anarchism among many other books.

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Author:   Murray Bookchin ,  Debbie Bookchin ,  Blair Taylor ,  Ursula Le Guin
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9781781685815


ISBN 10:   1781685819
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   06 January 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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


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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.

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