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

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

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

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

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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9781781685815
Author Murray Bookchin
PublisherVerso
GenreNews & politics
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2015
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Murray Bookchin

Murray Bookchin is cofounder of the Institute for Social Ecology. An active voice in the ecology and anarchist movements for more than forty years, he has written numerous books and articles, including: Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left, Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism, The Spanish Anarchists, The Ecology of Freedom, Urbanization Without Cities, and Re-enchanting Humanity. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

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