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The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy

The International Journal of

INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY

A theoretical journal published by the International Network for Inclusive Democracy

ISSN 1753-240X

Special Issue August 2005

The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy

TAKIS FOTOPOULOS

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This IJID publication is an English translation of the book with the same title published in Athens in 2005.

Copyright (C) reserved for the International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, 2005.

Contents

Prologue

Introduction

PART I: THE PRESENT MULTIDIMENSIONAL CRISIS

Chapter 1: The emergence of the present system

  • Capitalism or market economy?

  • The shift to modernity

  • The rise of the market economy

  • The emergence of representative ‘democracy’

Chapter 2: Forms of modernity

  • Liberal modernity

  • Statist modernity

  • Neoliberal modernity

Chapter 3: The Internationalisation of the market economy

  • Neoliberal globalisation

  • The State in neoliberal modernity

  • The new Transnational Elite

Chapter 4: Globalisation and the Left

  • Reformist Left and Globalisation

  • The myth of globalisation as an ideology

  • Globalisation as an ‘empire’

Chapter 5: Growth economy and growth ideology

  • The rise of the growth economy

  • Capitalist and socialist growth economy

  • Growth economy and growth ideology

  • Concentration: the inevitable outcome of market economy’s dynamics

Chapter 6: The causes of the collapse of the socialist project

  • The decline of socialist statism

  • The causes of the collapse of ‘actually existing socialism’

  • The causes of the decline of social democracy

Chapter 7: The ecological failure of the growth economy

  • The end of growth ideology

  • The ecological failure of growth economy

  • The ecological dimension of ‘development’

Chapter 8: The failure of the growth economy in the South

  • The growth economy and ‘development’

  • The rise and fall of the growth economy in the South

  • Toward a new "North-South" divide

  • Development or Democracy?

Chapter 9: The dimensions of the multidimensiuonal crisis
  • The economic dimension
  • The political dimension
  • The social dimension
  • The cultural dimension
  • The ideological dimension
  • The ecological dimension
Chapter 10: Is there a way out of the crisis?
  • The liberal answer: more marketisation
  • The socialist answer: enhancing the ‘civil society’
  • The need for a new liberatoty project

PART II: A NEW LIBERATORY PROJECT

Chapter 11: The meaning of democracy

  • What is democracy?

  • The Athenian conception of democracy

  • The Liberal Conception of Democracy

  • The Marxist-Leninist conception of democracy

  • The conceptions of “radical “ democracy

Chapter 12: The foundations of the new liberatory project

  • What is the foundation of freedom and democracy?

  • Toward a democratic rationalism

Chapter 13: Direct Political Democracy

  • The meaning of political democracy

  • Confederal democracy

  • The attacks against direct democracy

Chapter 14: Economic democracy

  • The meaning of economic democracy

  • A model of economic democracy

  • Demotic Self-reliance

  • Demotic Ownership of Productive Resources

  • Confederal allocation of resources

Chapter 15: The other elements of Inclusive Democracy

  • Democracy in the social realm

  • Ecological democracy

  • A democratic conception of citizenship

Chapter 16: The transition to an Inclusive Democracy

  • The limitations of lifestyle and direct action strategies

  • A strategy for the transition to a confederal inclusive democracy

  • The significance of local elections 

  • The need for a new type of movement

  • The liberatory subject today

  • A new kind of Politics

  • A new type of political organisation