The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy  PDF

TAKIS FOTOPOULOS

 

This IJID publication is an English translation of the book with the same title published in Athens in 2005.

Copyright © reserved for the International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, 2005.

 

CONTENTS

 

 

Prologue

 

Introduction

 

 

PART I: THE PRESENT MULTIDIMENSIONAL CRISIS

 

Chapter 1: The emergence of the present system

• Capitalism or market economy?

• The shift to modernity

• The rise of the market economy

• The emergence of representative ‘democracy’

Chapter 2: Forms of modernity

• Liberal modernity

• Statist modernity

• Neoliberal modernity

Chapter 3: The Internationalisation of the market economy

• Neoliberal globalisation

• The State in neoliberal modernity

• The new Transnational Elite

Chapter 4: Globalisation and the Left

• Reformist Left and Globalisation

• The myth of globalisation as an ideology

• Globalisation as an ‘empire’

Chapter 5: Growth economy and growth ideology

• The rise of the growth economy

• Capitalist and socialist growth economy

• Growth economy and growth ideology

• Concentration: the inevitable outcome of market economy’s dynamics 

Chapter 6: The causes of the collapse of the socialist project

• The decline of socialist statism

• The causes of the collapse of ‘actually existing socialism’

• The causes of the decline of social democracy

Chapter 7: The ecological failure of the growth economy

• The end of growth ideology 

• The ecological failure of growth economy

• The ecological dimension of ‘development’

Chapter 8: The failure of the growth economy in the South

• The growth economy and ‘development’

• The rise and fall  of the growth economy in the South

• Toward a  new "North-South" divide

• Development or Democracy?

Chapter 9: The dimensions of the multidimensiuonal crisis

• The economic dimension

• The political dimension

• The social dimension

• The cultural dimension

• The ideological dimension

• The ecological dimension     

Chapter 10: Is there a way out of the crisis?

• The liberal answer: more marketisation

• The socialist answer: enhancing the ‘civil society’

• The need for a new liberatoty project

PART II: A NEW LIBERATORY PROJECT

 

Chapter 11: The meaning of democracy

• What is democracy?

• The Athenian conception of democracy

• The Liberal Conception of Democracy

• The Marxist-Leninist conception of democracy

• The conceptions of “radical “ democracy

Chapter 12: The foundations of  the new liberatory project

• What is the foundation of freedom and democracy?

• Toward a democratic rationalism

Chapter 13: Direct Political Democracy

• The meaning of political democracy

• Confederal democracy

• The attacks against direct democracy

Chapter 14: Economic democracy

• The meaning of economic democracy

• A model of economic democracy

• Demotic Self-reliance

• Demotic Ownership of Productive Resources

• Confederal allocation of resources

Chapter 15: The other elements of Inclusive Democracy

• Democracy in the social realm

• Ecological democracy

• A democratic conception of citizenship

Chapter 16: The transition to an Inclusive Democracy

• The limitations of lifestyle and direct action strategies

• A  strategy for the transition to a confederal inclusive democracy

• The significance of local elections                       

• The need for a  new type of movement

• The liberatory subject today

• A new kind of Politics

• A new type of political organisation

 

 

 

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