Democracy & Nature
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY
Volume 5 Number 1, March 1999
Our Aims 5
Contributors 11
Editorial 13
MASS MEDIA, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY
On Freedom of Press and Culture: an Interview with Noam Chomsky
17
On Media, Culture and the Prospects for a New Liberatory Project: an Interview
with Ken Loach 27
Mass Media, Culture, and Democracy by Takis Fotopoulos
33
The Myth of Electronic Populism: Talk Radio and the Decline of the Public
Sphere by Carl Boggs & Tina Dirmann 65
(Abstract)
Mass Media, Culture, and the Left by Michael Albert 95
(Abstract)
Communal Stasis, Media, and a Civic Interpretation of the Historical
Materialist Model by John Ely 111
(Abstract)
REVIEW ARTICLE
Libertarian Thought, Ideology, and the ‘Classics’: a Review of Cleisthenes the
Athenian by Pierre Leveque & Pierre Vidal-Naquet by John Ely 145
DIALOGUE
On the Bookchin/Biehl Resignations and the Creation of a New Liberatory
Project by David Ames Curtis 163
On a Distorted View of the Inclusive Democracy Project by
Takis Fotopoulos 175
CNS and "Bookchin-ology" by Takis Fotopoulos 189
The war in the Balkans and the criminal role of the centre-"left" by Takis Fotopoulos 195
Democracy & Nature
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE
DEMOCRACY
Volume 5 Number 2, July 1999
Our Aims 205
Contributors 211
Editorial 213
FROM STATISM TO MARKETIZATION
Transforming Europe: New Zones of Dependency by Heather Field & James
Goodman 217
(Abstract)
In Search of an Alternative Path: Report from Poland by Janusz Nagiecki 239
(Abstract)
New Problems for Old: The Institution of Capitalist Economic and Environmental Irrationality in China
by Richard Smith 249
(Abstract)
The Catastrophe of Marketisation by Takis Fotopoulos 275
DEMOCRACY IN THEORY AND IN PRACTICE
Democracy and Beyond by Amedeo Bertolo 311
Can, and Should, Europe Export Democracy to Africa? by Robert Pinkney 325
(Abstract)
The State versus Civil Society: Democracy and Sustainability in Ireland by
Sheelagh Broderick 343
(Abstract)
THE WAR IN THE BALKANS
The First War of the Internationalised Market Economy by Takis Fotopoulos 357
REVIEW ARTICLE
Taking Democracy Seriously: A Review of Towards an Inclusive Democracy by Takis Fotopoulos
by Michael Levin 383
A Response to Michael Levin’s Review Article by Takis Fotopoulos
395
BOOK REVIEW
Barbara Noske: Beyond Boundaries: Humans and Animals by Brian Morris 407
Democracy & Nature
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY
Volume 5 Number 3, November 1999
Our Aims 421
Contributors 427
Editorial 429
WELFARE AND DEMOCRACY
Welfare State or Economic Democracy? by Takis Fotopoulos
433
Socioeconomic Democracy and the State of Welfare by Robley E.
George 469
(Abstract)
ECOLOGY AND ETHICS
Social Morals and Ethics of Nature: from Peter Kropotkin to Murray Bookchin
by Dario Padovan 485
The Paradox of Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development
by Serge
Latouche 501
(Abstract)
The ‘Democratic’ Separation of Technology and Ethics—the Case of the
Flemish Regulation of Genetic Engineering by Dirk Holemans 511
(Abstract)
DIALOGUE
The Politics of Social Ecology: Beyond the Limits of the City
by John Clark 523
(Abstract)
Social Ecology, Eco-Communitarianism and Inclusive Democracy by
Takis Fotopoulos 561