Have we now reached 'the end of history' with the triumph of capitalist liberal democracy? Is socialism an enemy of democracy? Or could socialism develop, expand and enhance democracy? The antagonism between liberalism and democratic processes is increasingly visible: we can see the contradictions of capitalist globalization, a rise of authoritarian politics in many states, and concepts of post-democracy, anti-politics, and the like gaining currency in theoretical and political debate. This volume seeks a re-appraisal of actually-existing liberal democracy today, but its main goal to help lay the foundations for new visions and practices in the development of socialist democracy. Amidst the contradictions of neoliberal capitalism today, the responsibility to sort out the relationship between socialism and democracy has never been greater. No revival of socialist politics in the 21st century can occur apart from founding new democratic institutions and practices.
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Have we now reached 'the end of history' with the triumph of capitalist liberal democracy? Is socialism an enemy of democracy? Or could socialism develop, expand and enhance democracy?
* Greg Albo: Rethinking socialism and democracy: new strategies - or detours?; * Sheila Rowbotham: Women, democracy and revolution; * Martijn Konings: Neoliberalism and democracy; * Alex Demirovic: Radical democracy, post-democracy, socialist democracy; * Dennis Pilon: Proportional representation as a democratic class project; * Catarina Principe: Can the EU be democratized? The centrality of the nation-state; * Magnus Ryner: Authoritarian EU neoliberalism versus democratic agency; * Pete Ramand: Referenda and democracy: Lessons from Scotland and Brexit; * Sharryn Kasmir: Rethinking democracy, rethinking coops and unions; * Adam Hilton: Organized for Democracy? Challenging the US Democratic Party; * Des Freedman & Natalie Fenton: What does it mean to break up media power?; * Nina Power: Digital democracy?; * Tom Mills: Beyond public broadcasting: Democratic alternatives to the BBC; * Massimilliano Mollona: Artists and new democratic urban spaces in Europe; * Ramon Ribera Fumaz: The Rebel Cities: Radical Democracy in Barcelona and Madrid; * Daniel Chavez: Polis and demos: participatory urban planning; * Leandro Vergara-Camus & Cristobal Kay: Agrarian democracy? Latin American experience and prospect; * Michelle Williams: The practice of democratic communism: Kerala & S Africa; * Ian McKay: Redeeming liberal democracy in Marxist theory; * Jason Schulman: Communism: Classless democracy or the administration of things?; * Madeleine Davis: Retrieving the new left's vision of socialist democracy.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780850367331
Publisert
2017-10-01
Utgiver
Vendor
The Merlin Press Ltd
Aldersnivå
UP, UU, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
296

Biographical note

Leo Panitch and Greg Albo are Professor Emeritus and Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto.