Dario Azzellini,Marina Sitrin,David Harvey
Mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece,Â Argentina, and the United States ultimately share an agendaâ€”toÂ raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalistÂ movements, including Occupy, exercise and claim participatoryÂ democracy as the ground of revolutionary social change today., ,Written by two international activist intellectuals and based on extensiveÂ interviews with movement participants in Spain, Venezuela,Â Argentina, across the United States, and elsewhere, this book is anÂ expansive portrait of the assemblies, direct democracy forums, andÂ organizational forms championed by the new movements, as wellÂ as an analytical history of direct and participatory democracy fromÂ ancient Athens to Zuccotti Park. The new movements put forwardÂ the idea that liberal democracy is not democratic, nor was it ever.
Politics,Academic
They Can't Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy From Greece To Occupy