INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACYWHAT IS INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACYSUPPORT THE ID NETWORKTAKIS FOTOPOULOS' ARCHIVE In short, Inclusive Democracy is a form of social organization which re-integrates society with economy, polity and nature. The concept of Inclusive Democracy is derived from a synthesis of two major historical traditions: the classical democratic and the socialist. It also encompasses radical green, feminist, indigenous and liberation WHAT IS INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY? What is Inclusive Democracy? TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Inclusive democracy is a new conception of democracy, which, using as a starting point the classical definition of it, expresses democracy in terms of direct political democracy, economic democracy (beyond the confines of the market economy and state planning), as well as democracy in the social realm and ecological democracy. In short, inclusive CLASS DIVISIONS TODAY: THE INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY APPROACH Class Divisions Today ― The Inclusive Democracy approach . TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Abstract: The aim of this article is to show that the collapse of the socialist project and the consequent abandonment of ‘grand narratives’ should not be followed by the rejection of every type of class analysis and politics, or, even more so, by the abandonment of every attempt to develop a universal project MASS MEDIA & IDEOLOGICAL GLOABLISATION Mass media and ideological globalisation . TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Economic and political globalisation are inevitably accompanied by a kind of ideological globalisation, a

INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY

Inclusive Democracy

DEMOCRACY AND THE MULTIPARTY PO Democracy and the multiparty political system - TOM CRUMPACKER years. Historical Idea of Democracy Unfortunately, one of the things we lack in this mass community of 280 million people RETHINKING REVOLUTION: ANIMAL LIBERATION, HUMAN LIBERATION The body of literature comprising the field of cognitive ethology is incredibly rich and vast. Donald R. Griffin was a pioneer of the scientific study of animal life and intelligence, and wrote important works such as Animal Minds (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992). For more contemporary approaches, see the excellent work of Marc Bekoff, including Minding Animals: Awareness HARDT AND NEGRI’S EMPIRE: A NEW COMMUNIST MANIFESTO OR A Hardt and Negri’s Empire: a new Communist Manifesto or a reformist welcome to neoliberal globalisation?. TAKIS FOTOPOULOS & ALEXANDROS GEZERLIS. Abstract: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire (Harvard University Press, 2000) has generally been characterised by the establishment press, but also by some in the Left, as a kind of new ‘Communist Manifesto’. DEMOCRACIA INCLUSIVA LOS OBJETIVOS DE LA DEMOCRACIA INCLUSIVA. printable version . I. La causa fundamental de la actual crisis multidimensional (política, económica, social, ecológica, cultural) es la concentración de poder en manos de diversas élites, la cual se mantiene y reproduce gracias a las dinámicas del sistema de la economía de mercado (en su actual forma internacionalizada) y su complemento

MURRAY BOOKCHIN

Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview * Murray Bookchin . Perhaps the greatest single failing of movements for social reconstruction ― I refer particularly to the Left, to radical ecology groups, and to organizations that profess to speak for the oppressed ― is their lack of a politics that will carry people beyond the limits established by the status quo. INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACYWHAT IS INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACYSUPPORT THE ID NETWORKTAKIS FOTOPOULOS' ARCHIVE In short, Inclusive Democracy is a form of social organization which re-integrates society with economy, polity and nature. The concept of Inclusive Democracy is derived from a synthesis of two major historical traditions: the classical democratic and the socialist. It also encompasses radical green, feminist, indigenous and liberation WHAT IS INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY? What is Inclusive Democracy? TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Inclusive democracy is a new conception of democracy, which, using as a starting point the classical definition of it, expresses democracy in terms of direct political democracy, economic democracy (beyond the confines of the market economy and state planning), as well as democracy in the social realm and ecological democracy. In short, inclusive CLASS DIVISIONS TODAY: THE INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY APPROACH Class Divisions Today ― The Inclusive Democracy approach . TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Abstract: The aim of this article is to show that the collapse of the socialist project and the consequent abandonment of ‘grand narratives’ should not be followed by the rejection of every type of class analysis and politics, or, even more so, by the abandonment of every attempt to develop a universal project MASS MEDIA & IDEOLOGICAL GLOABLISATION Mass media and ideological globalisation . TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Economic and political globalisation are inevitably accompanied by a kind of ideological globalisation, a

INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY

Inclusive Democracy

DEMOCRACY AND THE MULTIPARTY PO Democracy and the multiparty political system - TOM CRUMPACKER years. Historical Idea of Democracy Unfortunately, one of the things we lack in this mass community of 280 million people RETHINKING REVOLUTION: ANIMAL LIBERATION, HUMAN LIBERATION The body of literature comprising the field of cognitive ethology is incredibly rich and vast. Donald R. Griffin was a pioneer of the scientific study of animal life and intelligence, and wrote important works such as Animal Minds (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992). For more contemporary approaches, see the excellent work of Marc Bekoff, including Minding Animals: Awareness HARDT AND NEGRI’S EMPIRE: A NEW COMMUNIST MANIFESTO OR A Hardt and Negri’s Empire: a new Communist Manifesto or a reformist welcome to neoliberal globalisation?. TAKIS FOTOPOULOS & ALEXANDROS GEZERLIS. Abstract: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire (Harvard University Press, 2000) has generally been characterised by the establishment press, but also by some in the Left, as a kind of new ‘Communist Manifesto’. DEMOCRACIA INCLUSIVA LOS OBJETIVOS DE LA DEMOCRACIA INCLUSIVA. printable version . I. La causa fundamental de la actual crisis multidimensional (política, económica, social, ecológica, cultural) es la concentración de poder en manos de diversas élites, la cual se mantiene y reproduce gracias a las dinámicas del sistema de la economía de mercado (en su actual forma internacionalizada) y su complemento

MURRAY BOOKCHIN

Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview * Murray Bookchin . Perhaps the greatest single failing of movements for social reconstruction ― I refer particularly to the Left, to radical ecology groups, and to organizations that profess to speak for the oppressed ― is their lack of a politics that will carry people beyond the limits established by the status quo. THE AIMS OF INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY I. The ultimate cause of the present multidimensional crisis (political, economic, social, ecological, cultural) is the concentration of power in the hands of various elites, which is maintained and reproduced by the dynamics of the system of the market economy (in its present internationalised form) and its political complement, representative " democracy ", i.e. the economic and

political

RECENT THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS ON THE INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY Recent Theoretical Developments on the Inclusive Democracy Project printable version. TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . The aim of this article is to present briefly the vast amount of theoretical work that has followed the publication of Towards An Inclusive Democracy (TID) more than ten years ago, and its translation in several languages. RETHINKING REVOLUTION: ANIMAL LIBERATION, HUMAN LIBERATION The body of literature comprising the field of cognitive ethology is incredibly rich and vast. Donald R. Griffin was a pioneer of the scientific study of animal life and intelligence, and wrote important works such as Animal Minds (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992). For more contemporary approaches, see the excellent work of Marc Bekoff, including Minding Animals: Awareness CHAPTER 5: GROWTH ECONOMY AND GROWTH IDEOLOGY [ THE Chapter 5: Growth economy and growth ideology printable version . The rise of the growth economy . Fukuyama triumphantly declared the “end of history” when the collapse of the socialist project was obvious in both its Eastern and Western versions (“actually existing

MURRAY BOOKCHIN

Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview * Murray Bookchin . Perhaps the greatest single failing of movements for social reconstruction ― I refer particularly to the Left, to radical ecology groups, and to organizations that profess to speak for the oppressed ― is their lack of a politics that will carry people beyond the limits established by the status quo.

INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY

Inclusive Democracy

MURRAY BOOKCHIN

The association of "chaos," "nomadism" and "cultural terrorism" with "ontological anarchy" (as though the bourgeoisie had not turned such antics into an "ecstasy industry" in the United States) is fully explicated in Hakim Bey's (aka Peter Lamborn Wilson) T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (New York: Autonomedia, 1985).The Yuppie Whole Earth Review celebrates this pamphlet as the most THE CRIME OF THE ZIONISTS AND THE TRANSNATIONAL ELITE AND ADDENDUM: Why the Zionist Brutality in Gaza?. The Zionist systemic violence in Gaza, which is fully backed by the rest of the transnational elite (U.S., E.U.) and its tyrannical Arab satrap regimes, has already reached the limits of brutality.

LEAVING UTOPIA

Leaving Utopia - MARY GARDEN The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, Vol. 2, No. 2 (January 2006) Leaving Utopia MARY GARDEN Virtually everyone leaves Utopia after a time. NΕOΡΑΤΣΙΣΜΌΣ ΚΑΙ ΝΕOΦΙΛΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΣΜΌΣ ΤΑΚΗΣ …TRANSLATE THIS PAGE N ε o ρατσισμός και Νε o φιλελευθερισμός. ΤΑΚΗΣ ΦΩΤΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ . Όταν χάνεται η αίσθηση τoυ ανήκειν σε κάποια κοινωνική ομάδα τότε γίνεται επιστροφή στις φυσικές κατηγορίες, όπως το χρώμα του δέρματος, η INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACYWHAT IS INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACYSUPPORT THE ID NETWORKTAKIS FOTOPOULOS' ARCHIVE In short, Inclusive Democracy is a form of social organization which re-integrates society with economy, polity and nature. The concept of Inclusive Democracy is derived from a synthesis of two major historical traditions: the classical democratic and the socialist. It also encompasses radical green, feminist, indigenous and liberation THE AIMS OF INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY I. The ultimate cause of the present multidimensional crisis (political, economic, social, ecological, cultural) is the concentration of power in the hands of various elites, which is maintained and reproduced by the dynamics of the system of the market economy (in its present internationalised form) and its political complement, representative " democracy ", i.e. the economic and

political

WHAT IS INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY? What is Inclusive Democracy? TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Inclusive democracy is a new conception of democracy, which, using as a starting point the classical definition of it, expresses democracy in terms of direct political democracy, economic democracy (beyond the confines of the market economy and state planning), as well as democracy in the social realm and ecological democracy. In short, inclusive RECENT THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS ON THE INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY Recent Theoretical Developments on the Inclusive Democracy Project printable version. TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . The aim of this article is to present briefly the vast amount of theoretical work that has followed the publication of Towards An Inclusive Democracy (TID) more than ten years ago, and its translation in several languages. CLASS DIVISIONS TODAY: THE INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY APPROACH Class Divisions Today ― The Inclusive Democracy approach . TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Abstract: The aim of this article is to show that the collapse of the socialist project and the consequent abandonment of ‘grand narratives’ should not be followed by the rejection of every type of class analysis and politics, or, even more so, by the abandonment of every attempt to develop a universal project MASS MEDIA & IDEOLOGICAL GLOABLISATION Mass media and ideological globalisation . TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Economic and political globalisation are inevitably accompanied by a kind of ideological globalisation, a DEMOCRACY AND THE MULTIPARTY PO Democracy and the multiparty political system - TOM CRUMPACKER years. Historical Idea of Democracy Unfortunately, one of the things we lack in this mass community of 280 million people HARDT AND NEGRI’S EMPIRE: A NEW COMMUNIST MANIFESTO OR A Hardt and Negri’s Empire: a new Communist Manifesto or a reformist welcome to neoliberal globalisation?. TAKIS FOTOPOULOS & ALEXANDROS GEZERLIS. Abstract: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire (Harvard University Press, 2000) has generally been characterised by the establishment press, but also by some in the Left, as a kind of new ‘Communist Manifesto’. THE ANIMAL ENTERPRISE TERRORISM The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: New, Improved, and ACLU Approved - STEVEN BEST been cleared, the US took a qualitative leap toward becoming a police state whose enforcers

LEAVING UTOPIA

Leaving Utopia - MARY GARDEN The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, Vol. 2, No. 2 (January 2006) Leaving Utopia MARY GARDEN Virtually everyone leaves Utopia after a time. INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACYWHAT IS INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACYSUPPORT THE ID NETWORKTAKIS FOTOPOULOS' ARCHIVE In short, Inclusive Democracy is a form of social organization which re-integrates society with economy, polity and nature. The concept of Inclusive Democracy is derived from a synthesis of two major historical traditions: the classical democratic and the socialist. It also encompasses radical green, feminist, indigenous and liberation THE AIMS OF INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY I. The ultimate cause of the present multidimensional crisis (political, economic, social, ecological, cultural) is the concentration of power in the hands of various elites, which is maintained and reproduced by the dynamics of the system of the market economy (in its present internationalised form) and its political complement, representative " democracy ", i.e. the economic and

political

WHAT IS INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY? What is Inclusive Democracy? TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Inclusive democracy is a new conception of democracy, which, using as a starting point the classical definition of it, expresses democracy in terms of direct political democracy, economic democracy (beyond the confines of the market economy and state planning), as well as democracy in the social realm and ecological democracy. In short, inclusive RECENT THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS ON THE INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY Recent Theoretical Developments on the Inclusive Democracy Project printable version. TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . The aim of this article is to present briefly the vast amount of theoretical work that has followed the publication of Towards An Inclusive Democracy (TID) more than ten years ago, and its translation in several languages. CLASS DIVISIONS TODAY: THE INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY APPROACH Class Divisions Today ― The Inclusive Democracy approach . TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Abstract: The aim of this article is to show that the collapse of the socialist project and the consequent abandonment of ‘grand narratives’ should not be followed by the rejection of every type of class analysis and politics, or, even more so, by the abandonment of every attempt to develop a universal project MASS MEDIA & IDEOLOGICAL GLOABLISATION Mass media and ideological globalisation . TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Economic and political globalisation are inevitably accompanied by a kind of ideological globalisation, a DEMOCRACY AND THE MULTIPARTY PO Democracy and the multiparty political system - TOM CRUMPACKER years. Historical Idea of Democracy Unfortunately, one of the things we lack in this mass community of 280 million people HARDT AND NEGRI’S EMPIRE: A NEW COMMUNIST MANIFESTO OR A Hardt and Negri’s Empire: a new Communist Manifesto or a reformist welcome to neoliberal globalisation?. TAKIS FOTOPOULOS & ALEXANDROS GEZERLIS. Abstract: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire (Harvard University Press, 2000) has generally been characterised by the establishment press, but also by some in the Left, as a kind of new ‘Communist Manifesto’. THE ANIMAL ENTERPRISE TERRORISM The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: New, Improved, and ACLU Approved - STEVEN BEST been cleared, the US took a qualitative leap toward becoming a police state whose enforcers

LEAVING UTOPIA

Leaving Utopia - MARY GARDEN The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, Vol. 2, No. 2 (January 2006) Leaving Utopia MARY GARDEN Virtually everyone leaves Utopia after a time. CLASS DIVISIONS TODAY: THE INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY APPROACH Class Divisions Today ― The Inclusive Democracy approach . TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Abstract: The aim of this article is to show that the collapse of the socialist project and the consequent abandonment of ‘grand narratives’ should not be followed by the rejection of every type of class analysis and politics, or, even more so, by the abandonment of every attempt to develop a universal project CHAPTER 5: GROWTH ECONOMY AND GROWTH IDEOLOGY [ THE Chapter 5: Growth economy and growth ideology printable version . The rise of the growth economy . Fukuyama triumphantly declared the “end of history” when the collapse of the socialist project was obvious in both its Eastern and Western versions (“actually existing CHAPTER 12-THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE NWE LIBERATORY PROJECT Chapter 12: The foundations of the new liberatory project printable version . What is the foundation of freedom and democracy . An autonomous society is inconceivable without HARDT AND NEGRI’S EMPIRE: A NEW COMMUNIST MANIFESTO OR A Hardt and Negri’s Empire: a new Communist Manifesto or a reformist welcome to neoliberal globalisation?. TAKIS FOTOPOULOS & ALEXANDROS GEZERLIS. Abstract: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire (Harvard University Press, 2000) has generally been characterised by the establishment press, but also by some in the Left, as a kind of new ‘Communist Manifesto’. RETHINKING REVOLUTION: ANIMAL LIBERATION, HUMAN LIBERATION The body of literature comprising the field of cognitive ethology is incredibly rich and vast. Donald R. Griffin was a pioneer of the scientific study of animal life and intelligence, and wrote important works such as Animal Minds (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992). For more contemporary approaches, see the excellent work of Marc Bekoff, including Minding Animals: Awareness

MURRAY BOOKCHIN

Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview * Murray Bookchin . Perhaps the greatest single failing of movements for social reconstruction ― I refer particularly to the Left, to radical ecology groups, and to organizations that profess to speak for the oppressed ― is their lack of a politics that will carry people beyond the limits established by the status quo. THE CRIME OF THE ZIONISTS AND THE TRANSNATIONAL ELITE AND ADDENDUM: Why the Zionist Brutality in Gaza?. The Zionist systemic violence in Gaza, which is fully backed by the rest of the transnational elite (U.S., E.U.) and its tyrannical Arab satrap regimes, has already reached the limits of brutality. PLATO AND CASTORIADIS: THE CONC Plato and Castoriadis: the concealment and the unravelling of democracy - YORGOS OIKONOMOU The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, Vol. 2, No. 1 (September 2005) DEMOCRACIA INCLUSIVA LOS OBJETIVOS DE LA DEMOCRACIA INCLUSIVA. printable version . I. La causa fundamental de la actual crisis multidimensional (política, económica, social, ecológica, cultural) es la concentración de poder en manos de diversas élites, la cual se mantiene y reproduce gracias a las dinámicas del sistema de la economía de mercado (en su actual forma internacionalizada) y su complemento THE ECO-VILLAGE MOVEMENT: DIVOR The eco-village movement: Divorced from reality - MARY GARDEN What also concerns me about GEN is the spiritual overtones of the movement.

In a recent

INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACYWHAT IS INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACYSUPPORT THE ID NETWORKTAKIS FOTOPOULOS' ARCHIVE In short, Inclusive Democracy is a form of social organization which re-integrates society with economy, polity and nature. The concept of Inclusive Democracy is derived from a synthesis of two major historical traditions: the classical democratic and the socialist. It also encompasses radical green, feminist, indigenous and liberation THE AIMS OF INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY I. The ultimate cause of the present multidimensional crisis (political, economic, social, ecological, cultural) is the concentration of power in the hands of various elites, which is maintained and reproduced by the dynamics of the system of the market economy (in its present internationalised form) and its political complement, representative " democracy ", i.e. the economic and

political

WHAT IS INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY? What is Inclusive Democracy? TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Inclusive democracy is a new conception of democracy, which, using as a starting point the classical definition of it, expresses democracy in terms of direct political democracy, economic democracy (beyond the confines of the market economy and state planning), as well as democracy in the social realm and ecological democracy. In short, inclusive CLASS DIVISIONS TODAY: THE INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY APPROACHTHE DIVISION

WORLD TIER

Class Divisions Today ― The Inclusive Democracy approach . TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Abstract: The aim of this article is to show that the collapse of the socialist project and the consequent abandonment of ‘grand narratives’ should not be followed by the rejection of every type of class analysis and politics, or, even more so, by the abandonment of every attempt to develop a universal project MASS MEDIA & IDEOLOGICAL GLOABLISATION Mass media and ideological globalisation . TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Economic and political globalisation are inevitably accompanied by a kind of ideological globalisation, a HARDT AND NEGRI’S EMPIRE: A NEW COMMUNIST MANIFESTO OR A Hardt and Negri’s Empire: a new Communist Manifesto or a reformist welcome to neoliberal globalisation?. TAKIS FOTOPOULOS & ALEXANDROS GEZERLIS. Abstract: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire (Harvard University Press, 2000) has generally been characterised by the establishment press, but also by some in the Left, as a kind of new ‘Communist Manifesto’. THE ANIMAL ENTERPRISE TERRORISM The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: New, Improved, and ACLU Approved - STEVEN BEST been cleared, the US took a qualitative leap toward becoming a police state whose enforcers CHAPTER 14: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY [ THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL Chapter 14: Economic democracy . printable version . The meaning of economic democracy . The usual definitions given to economic democracy by liberals, socialists and Green economists can be shown to be either inadequate or particular or both, and sometimes they tend to emphasise only one of the two main aspects of economic power: ownership and

control.

LIBERAL AND SOCIALIST “DEMOCRACIES” VERSUS INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY Liberal and Socialist “Democracies” versus Inclusive Democracy - TAKIS FOTOPOULOS The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, Vol. 2, No. 2 (January 2006)

MURRAY BOOKCHIN

Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview * Murray Bookchin . Perhaps the greatest single failing of movements for social reconstruction ― I refer particularly to the Left, to radical ecology groups, and to organizations that profess to speak for the oppressed ― is their lack of a politics that will carry people beyond the limits established by the status quo. INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACYWHAT IS INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACYSUPPORT THE ID NETWORKTAKIS FOTOPOULOS' ARCHIVE In short, Inclusive Democracy is a form of social organization which re-integrates society with economy, polity and nature. The concept of Inclusive Democracy is derived from a synthesis of two major historical traditions: the classical democratic and the socialist. It also encompasses radical green, feminist, indigenous and liberation THE AIMS OF INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY I. The ultimate cause of the present multidimensional crisis (political, economic, social, ecological, cultural) is the concentration of power in the hands of various elites, which is maintained and reproduced by the dynamics of the system of the market economy (in its present internationalised form) and its political complement, representative " democracy ", i.e. the economic and

political

WHAT IS INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY? What is Inclusive Democracy? TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Inclusive democracy is a new conception of democracy, which, using as a starting point the classical definition of it, expresses democracy in terms of direct political democracy, economic democracy (beyond the confines of the market economy and state planning), as well as democracy in the social realm and ecological democracy. In short, inclusive CLASS DIVISIONS TODAY: THE INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY APPROACHTHE DIVISION

WORLD TIER

Class Divisions Today ― The Inclusive Democracy approach . TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Abstract: The aim of this article is to show that the collapse of the socialist project and the consequent abandonment of ‘grand narratives’ should not be followed by the rejection of every type of class analysis and politics, or, even more so, by the abandonment of every attempt to develop a universal project MASS MEDIA & IDEOLOGICAL GLOABLISATION Mass media and ideological globalisation . TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Economic and political globalisation are inevitably accompanied by a kind of ideological globalisation, a HARDT AND NEGRI’S EMPIRE: A NEW COMMUNIST MANIFESTO OR A Hardt and Negri’s Empire: a new Communist Manifesto or a reformist welcome to neoliberal globalisation?. TAKIS FOTOPOULOS & ALEXANDROS GEZERLIS. Abstract: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire (Harvard University Press, 2000) has generally been characterised by the establishment press, but also by some in the Left, as a kind of new ‘Communist Manifesto’. THE ANIMAL ENTERPRISE TERRORISM The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: New, Improved, and ACLU Approved - STEVEN BEST been cleared, the US took a qualitative leap toward becoming a police state whose enforcers CHAPTER 14: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY [ THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL Chapter 14: Economic democracy . printable version . The meaning of economic democracy . The usual definitions given to economic democracy by liberals, socialists and Green economists can be shown to be either inadequate or particular or both, and sometimes they tend to emphasise only one of the two main aspects of economic power: ownership and

control.

LIBERAL AND SOCIALIST “DEMOCRACIES” VERSUS INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY Liberal and Socialist “Democracies” versus Inclusive Democracy - TAKIS FOTOPOULOS The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, Vol. 2, No. 2 (January 2006)

MURRAY BOOKCHIN

Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview * Murray Bookchin . Perhaps the greatest single failing of movements for social reconstruction ― I refer particularly to the Left, to radical ecology groups, and to organizations that profess to speak for the oppressed ― is their lack of a politics that will carry people beyond the limits established by the status quo. THE AIMS OF INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY I. The ultimate cause of the present multidimensional crisis (political, economic, social, ecological, cultural) is the concentration of power in the hands of various elites, which is maintained and reproduced by the dynamics of the system of the market economy (in its present internationalised form) and its political complement, representative " democracy ", i.e. the economic and

political

THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY (THE ID The International Network for Inclusive Democracy is an international confederation of local autonomous groups or individual members. Participation in the network does not imply any organization commitment, since there is no ‘centre’, in accordance with the

aims of the ID.

A NEW TYPE OF POLITICS AND POLITICAL ORGANISATION A new type of political organisation. It is clear that the new type of political organisation should itself mirror the desired structure of society. This would not be the usual political party, but a form of ‘democracy in action’, which would undertake various forms of intervention at the local level, always as part of a comprehensive CLASS DIVISIONS TODAY: THE INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY APPROACH Class Divisions Today ― The Inclusive Democracy approach . TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . Abstract: The aim of this article is to show that the collapse of the socialist project and the consequent abandonment of ‘grand narratives’ should not be followed by the rejection of every type of class analysis and politics, or, even more so, by the abandonment of every attempt to develop a universal project RECENT THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS ON THE INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY Recent Theoretical Developments on the Inclusive Democracy Project printable version. TAKIS FOTOPOULOS . The aim of this article is to present briefly the vast amount of theoretical work that has followed the publication of Towards An Inclusive Democracy (TID) more than ten years ago, and its translation in several languages. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 | Volume 5 | . Volume 6 | Volume 7 | Volume 8 | Volume 9 | Volume 10 |. Volume 11 | Volume 12 | Volume 13. IJID publications / Special Issues * Takis Fotopoulos, The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy (entire book) Special Issue (August 2005). * Steve Best (ed.), Global Capitalism and the Demise of the Left: Renewing Radicalism Through HARDT AND NEGRI’S EMPIRE: A NEW COMMUNIST MANIFESTO OR A Hardt and Negri’s Empire: a new Communist Manifesto or a reformist welcome to neoliberal globalisation?. TAKIS FOTOPOULOS & ALEXANDROS GEZERLIS. Abstract: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire (Harvard University Press, 2000) has generally been characterised by the establishment press, but also by some in the Left, as a kind of new ‘Communist Manifesto’. CHAPTER 14: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY [ THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL Chapter 14: Economic democracy . printable version . The meaning of economic democracy . The usual definitions given to economic democracy by liberals, socialists and Green economists can be shown to be either inadequate or particular or both, and sometimes they tend to emphasise only one of the two main aspects of economic power: ownership and

control.

DEMOCRACY AND THE MULTIPARTY PO Democracy and the multiparty political system - TOM CRUMPACKER years. Historical Idea of Democracy Unfortunately, one of the things we lack in this mass community of 280 million people

MURRAY BOOKCHIN

The association of "chaos," "nomadism" and "cultural terrorism" with "ontological anarchy" (as though the bourgeoisie had not turned such antics into an "ecstasy industry" in the United States) is fully explicated in Hakim Bey's (aka Peter Lamborn Wilson) T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (New York: Autonomedia, 1985).The Yuppie Whole Earth Review celebrates this pamphlet as the most >>>>>     -------------------------

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>>>>>      This is the project for direct political democracy, >>>>>     economic democracy (beyond the confines of the market >>>>>     economy and state planning), as well as democracy in the >>>>>     social realm and ecological democracy. In short, Inclusive >>>>>     Democracy is a form of social organization which >>>>>     re-integrates society with economy, polity and nature.

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>>>>>      The concept of Inclusive Democracy is derived from a >>>>>     synthesis of two major historical traditions: the classical >>>>>     democratic and the socialist. It also encompasses radical >>>>>     green, feminist, indigenous and liberation movements in the >>>>>     South.

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>>>>>      From the Inclusive Democracy perspective the world is in a >>>>>     multidimensional crisis, caused by the concentration of >>>>>     power in the hands of various elites, as a result of the >>>>>     establishment of the system of market/growth economy, >>>>>     representative democracy and the related forms of >>>>>     hierarchical structures. Inclusive Democracy is therefore >>>>>     not seen as a utopia but as probably the only way out of the >>>>>     present crisis.

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