The International Journal of

INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY

A theoretical journal published by the International Network for Inclusive Democracy

ISSN 1753-240X

 

 

Volume 5

Vol. 5, No. 1, Special Issue (Winter 2009)

Global Capitalism and the Demise of the Left: Renewing Radicalism Through Inclusive Democracy   Download the book in PDF (4.97 MB)

EDITED BY STEVE BEST

 

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

 

Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring 2009)

Contents

Contributors  PDF

Editorial  PDF

CAPITALISM GETS A NEW IMAGE …

The “new world order” hype and the new version of social-liberalism, Takis Fotopoulos  PDF

Barack H. Obama the Image-Maker, John Sargis  PDF

… BUT THE OLD IMAGE LINGERS ON

The Crime of the Zionists and the Transnational Elite and the Stand of the Left, Takis Fotopoulos  PDF [ UPDATE: Addendum added (19/01/2009) ]

Neoliberal Politics of Innovation and its Opposition at the University: The Case of Finland, Mika Pekkola  PDF

A systemic crisis in Greece, Takis Fotopoulos  PDF

THEORETICAL ISSUES

Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism, Steven Best  PDF

 

Vol. 5, No. 3/4, Special Issue (Summer/Fall 2009)

The Pink Revolution in Iran and the "Left" Download the booklet in PDF

TAKIS FOTOPOULOS 

 

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

 

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