Azzellini Dario - They Can't Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy From Greece To Occupy - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece Argentina and the United States ultimately share an agenda to raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalist movements including Occupy exercise and claim participatory democracy as the ground of revolutionary social change today. Written by two international activist intellectuals and based on extensive interviews with movement participants in Spain Venezuela Argentina across the United States and elsewhere this book is an expansive portrait of the assemblies direct democracy forums and organizational forms championed by the new movements as well as an analytical history of direct and participatory democracy from ancient Athens to Zuccotti Park. The new movements put forward the idea that liberal democracy is not democratic nor was it ever.
Title: They Can't Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy From Greece To Occupy
Author(s): Azzellini Dario
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781781680971
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 6/3/2014
Category: Demonstrations & Protest Movements