BOOKS ON INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY


The New World Order in Action: Globalization, the Brexit Revolution and the "Left" (Progressive Press, 2016)

 

TAKIS FOTOPOULOS 


 

 

 

 

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

TAKIS FOTOPOULOS 

 

(There is a limited number of copies that will be distributed at half price -to cover p&p- to people interested in the Inclusive Democracy project.)

 


The pink revolution in Iran and the "Left"   PDF the

TAKIS FOTOPOULOS"Left" 

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

Copyright (C) reserved for the International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, 2009.

 

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
 
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EDITED BY STEVE BEST

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

Copyright (C) reserved for the International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, 2009.

 

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)

TAKIS FOTOPOULOS

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

Copyright (C) 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?

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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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