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010 $a 2014029113
020 $a9781781685815 (paperback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aJF799$b.B67 2015
082 00 $a321.8$223
084 $aPOL005000$aPOL016000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aBookchin, Murray,$d1921-2006.
245 14 $aThe next revolution :$bpopular assemblies and the promise of direct democracy /$cessays by Murray Bookchin, edited and with an introduction by Debbie Bookchin and Blair Taylor ; foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bVerso,$c2015.
300 $axxii, 198 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Many similarities exist between the new movements against austerity that have emerged since 2011, ranging from Taksim Square in Turkey to the Chilean student protests, and from Greece to NYC. One of them is their return to the principles of direct democracy and their organization around popular assemblies. These ideas are hardly new - Murray Bookchin, who is one of the leading anarchist thinkers of the twentieth century, has been elaborating ideas about popular assemblies for several decades that have influenced thinkers such as David Harvey. The Next Revolution brings together Bookchin's writings on popular assemblies for the first time, just as his ideas are rekindling the radical imagination worldwide"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aPolitical participation.
650 0 $aDirect democracy.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aBookchin, Debbie.
700 1 $aTaylor, Blair.
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781781685815.jpg