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Title Statement | Deciding for ourselves: the promise of direct democracy / edited by Cindy Milstein. |
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Additional Contributors | Milstein, Cindy |
Publication | Chico, CA: AK Press,[2020]©2020 |
Extent of Item | xvii, 269 pages ; |
ISBN | 1849353735 (pbk.) 9781849353731 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3770164 |
Summary | In a time of social and ecological crises, people everywhere are looking for solutions. States and capitalism, rather than providing them, only make matters worse. There's a growing sense that we'll have to fix this mess on our own. But how? Deciding for Ourselves, in the spirit of the Zapatistas, demonstrates that 'the impossible is possible.' A better world through self-determination and self-governance is not only achievable; it is already happening in urban and rural communities around the world-from Mexico to Rojava, and Denmark to Greece-as an implicit or explicit replacement for nations, police, and other forms of hierarchical social control. This anthology explores contemporary examples of autonomous, directly democratic spaces and the real-world dilemmas they experience, all the while underscoring the egalitarian ways of life that are collectively generated in them. |
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By Topic | Direct democracy |
Representative government and representation |