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

Murray Bookchin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781685819 ISBN 13: 9781781685815

Publisher: Verso, 2015

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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Review

“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

“The Next Revolution is the most useful book I have read since participating in Occupy Wall Street. These essays are incredibly insightful on the questions of organization, structure and what could be next for our horizontal movements...I believe this book will help others, as it has helped and is helping me think through this political moment.” – Marina Sitrin, TeleSUR

“As an introduction to the thought of Murray Bookchin it is incredibly valuable and serves to motivate deeper engagement with his more detailed works on urbanization, social ecology, and “libertarian municipalism.””
– Marx and Philosophy

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1781685819
• ISBN 13: 9781781685815
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Debbie Bookchin, Blair Taylor