The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy

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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. Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin Introduction by Debbie Bookchin and Blair Taylor 1. The Communalist Project 2. The Ecological Crisis and the Need to Remake Society 3. A Politics for the Twenty-First Century 4. The Meaning of Confederalism 5. Libertarian Municipalism: A Politics of Direct Democracy 6. Cities: The Unfolding of Reason in History 7. Nationalism and the “National Question” 8. Anarchism and Power in the Spanish Revolution 9. The Future of the Left Acknowledgements Further Reading