The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy 9781781685822, 9781781685808, 9781781687338, 2014029113

Table of contents :
Cover Title
Page Copyright
Dedication
Foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin
Introduction by Debbie Bookchin and Blair Taylor

1. The Communalist Project
2. The Ecological Crisis and the Need to Remake Society
3. A Politics for the Twenty-First Century
4. The Meaning of Confederalism
5. Libertarian Municipalism: A Politics of Direct Democracy
6. Cities: The Unfolding of Reason in History
7. Nationalism and the “National Question”
8. Anarchism and Power in the Spanish Revolution
9. The Future of the Left

Acknowledgements
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