The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies & The Promise of Direct Democracy - Murray Bookchin (2014) AudioBook

The ideas about political organization that have animated the new radical movements worldwide

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide range of political thinkers and social movements.

With a foreword by the best-selling author of The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Next Revolution brings together Bookchin’s essays on freedom and direct democracy for the first time, offering a bold political vision that can move us from protest to social transformation. A pioneering voice in the ecology and anarchist movements, he is the author of The Ecology of Freedom and Post-Scarcity Anarchism among many other books.
The Next Revolution is a brief introduction to Communalist theory and politics by Murray Bookchin, the most vital thinker-activist of its kind. It assembles nine essays, written during the last decade of Bookchin’s life, which offer, among many things, lucid and penetrating criticisms of Marxism, anarchism, capitalism, hierarchy and domination, in order to navigate a rational and dialectical path through their limitations for the practice of an ecological politics of libertarian municipalism worthy of the original ambitions of the Enlightenment.
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Hardcover : 206 pages
ISBN-10 : 1551641011
ISBN-13 : 978-1551641010