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Synopsis
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 newMurray 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 Bookchins writings on popular assemblies for the first time, just as his ideas are rekindling the radical imagination worldwide.
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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. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
Review
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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- PublisherVerso Books
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1781685800
- ISBN 13 9781781685808
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
- EditorDebbie Bookchin And Blair Taylor
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