Description
Product ID: | 9781781685815 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Next Revolution |
Subtitle: | Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy |
Authors: | Author: Murray Bookchin, Debbie Bookchin, Blair Taylor |
Page Count: | 220 |
Subjects: | Political structure and processes, Political structure & processes, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Revolutionary groups and movements, Demonstrations & protest movements, Revolutionary groups & movements |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The ideas about political organization that have animated the new radical movements worldwide 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. |
Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2015-01-06 |