The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring 2009)
Contributors
Steven Best is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. He is the co-author with Douglas Kellner of Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations, The Postmodern Turn, and The Postmodern Adventure, as well as author of The Politics of Historical Vision. With Anthony J. Nocella II, he is co-editor of two recent volumes: Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals, and Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth.
Takis Fotopoulos is a political philosopher, editor of Society & Nature/Democracy and Nature/The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy. He is also a columnist for the Athens Daily Eleftherotypia. He was previously (1969–1989) Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of North London. He is the author of Towards An Inclusive Democracy (London & New York: Cassell, 1997) which has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Chinese and of the book The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy, published by the International Journal of Inclusive Democracy (2005). He has also contributed to several books in English, Italian, Chinese, Polish and Greek. He is also the author of numerous books in Greek on development; the Gulf War; the neo-liberal consensus; the New World Order; the drug culture; the New Order in the Balkans; the new irrationalism; globalisation and the Left; the war against ‘terrorism’; Chomsky’ s capitalism and Albert’s metacapitalism; the present multi-dimensional crisis; Inclusive Democracy-10 years after; and of a just published book on the present capitalist crisis and the antisystemic movement. He is also the author of over 750 articles in British, American and Greek theoretical journals, magazines and newspapers, several of which have been translated into over twenty languages (see http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/fotopoulos/).
Mika Pekkola is a doctoral student of General History at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. He is currently writing a Ph.D. thesis on Erich Fromm and the crisis of modernity, and editing a book on Critical Theory and Marx. Outside the academia, he is a creative writer and a translator. His translations include a Finnish edition of Fromm’s The Forgotten Language.
John Sargis is a political activist and organizer in Paterson, New Jersey. He is also assistant editor of The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy to which he makes frequent contributions. He is also a contributor to the book Globalised Capitalism, The Eclipse of the Left and Inclusive Democracy ed. by Steven Best (Athens: Koukkida, May 2008). He taught secondary school biology in Paterson, New Jersey for twenty-six years and he also used to function as a union leader.