Towards an Inclusive Democracy: The Crisis of the Growth Economy and the Need for a New Liberatory Project (London & NY: Cassell, 1997)

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This is a Special Issue of the IJID published in Summer 2009.

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Contents

 

Introduction

 

Chapter 1: The culmination of the campaign for regime change in Iran

• The build-up of the campaign for regime change

• The present pink revolution in Iran

Chapter 2: The dual conflict in Iran

• The old conflict between Islamists and bourgeois modernizers

 • The new ‘internal’ conflict between revolution fundamentalists and reformers

Chapter 3: The 2009 elections

• The two sides in the June 2009 elections

• The ‘unholy alliance’ of reformers and bourgeois modernizers

Chapter 4: The aims of the transnational elite

 • Why regime change NOW?

• A “Yugoslavian” kind of strategy for Iran?

Chapter 5: The reformist Left plays its usual role of the system’s cheerleader

• The role of the “Left” in the New World Order

• Zizek and Chomsky on Iran

• The sort of “alternative” information provided by Znet

Conclusion

 

Global Capitalism and the Demise of the Left:
Renewing Radicalism through Inclusive Democracy  PDF (4.97 MB)

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This IJID publication is an English translation of the book with the same title published in Athens in 2009.

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Contents

 

• The Authors, p. 1

INTRODUCTION

• Crisis Culture and the Waning of Revolutionary Politics, Steven Best, p. 11

• Our Aims, The International Network for Inclusive Democracy, p. 41

PART I:  GROWTH, MARKET, SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY

• Market and Society, Takis Nikolopoulos, p. 49

• The Market Economy and the Biological Crisis, dr. Panayotis Koumentakis, p. 53

• Towards a New Vision for Global Society, Rafael Spósito, p. 77

• Social Movements, Conflicts and a Perspective of Inclusive Democracy in Argentina, Guido Galafassi, p. 91

PART II: INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY AND THE LEFT

• Inclusive Democracy and its Prospects, David Freeman, p. 105

• Beyond Social Democracy?, Arran Gare, p. 129

• Can Democracy Solve All Problems?, Serge Latouche, p. 155

• Inclusive Democracy and Left Libertarianism, Michael Levin, p, 165

• Recent Theoretical Developments on the Inclusive Democracy Project, Takis Fotopoulos, p. 189

PART III: EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY

• The Democratic Paideia Project: Beginnings of an Emancipatory Paideia for Today, David Gabbard and Karen Anijar Appleton, p. 315

• Education, Paideia and Democracy: Experiences of the U.S. Educational System, John Sargis, p. 331

DIALOGUE-EPILOGUE

• Is Inclusive Democracy Feasible and Desirable?, Takis Fotopoulos, p. 373

APPENDICES

• Democracia Incluyente, Jorge Camil, p. 457

• Vers Une Démocratie Générale?, Jean-Claude Richard, p. 461

The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy  PDF (2.69 ΜΒ)

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

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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

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