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From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide range of political thinkers and social movements.
With a foreword by the best-selling author of The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Next Revolution brings together Bookchin’s essays on freedom and direct democracy for the first time, offering a bold political vision that can move us from protest to social transformation.
Ebook The Next Revolution Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy Murray Bookchin Debbie Bookchin Blair Taylor Ursula K Le Guin 9781781685815 Books
"At a time when society seems to be falling apart at the seams, it behooves us to listen to the words of Murray Bookchin - to reflect deeply on the blueprint he gave us, and fight for a better political reality."
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The Next Revolution Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy Murray Bookchin Debbie Bookchin Blair Taylor Ursula K Le Guin 9781781685815 Books Reviews
- Murray Bookchin was one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. His books influenced major political theorists like Noam Chomsky and Herbert Marcuse. Those who have followed his work will welcome this new book, which brings together new writing and seminal essays that would otherwise be scattered in libraries around the world. Readers less familiar with Bookchin's work should find this essay collection an accessible introduction to his radical but timely ideas.
The essays elaborate a new politics for direct democracy on the municipal level via forms designed to work in a globalized world. Bookchin is no blue-sky theorist. He goes into detail on the measures needed to save our planet and safeguard human freedom.
Murray Bookchin was an impassioned and inspiring writer, and his voice rings out in these pages. He’s feisty in critiquing the muddled thinking behind past failures of leftist movements for social change. He’s fiery in attacking the rapacious ethos of grow-or-die capitalism. He’s forceful in his analysis of the errors of Communism, anarchism and socialism. In expounding his own theories he's a hard-nosed rationalist. As he ventures into the uncharted waters of a new politics, he is energetic and confident despite the lack of models or paradigms.
I found the two introductions very helpful, too, in giving an overview of Bookchin's political philosophy. They are well written and lively and offer some biographical tidbits. I was particularly taken by the image of the nine-year-old Bookchin as a street agitator starting on the path that would lead him to become a respected advocate of social transformation.
These essays form a very practical guidebook for our social and ecological survival – stimulating reading for anyone concerned about the future of the species. - Enjoyed the book. Lots of ideas to think about for imagining a new way of organizing ourselves economically and socially. Don't have to endorse all the ideas in here, but it's great to have people thinking like Murray does in his book about how things can be done differently that would allow everyone to participate more fairly.
- At a time when society seems to be falling apart at the seams, it behooves us to listen to the words of Murray Bookchin - to reflect deeply on the blueprint he gave us, and fight for a better political reality.
- Some of the essays written after 2000 (when Bookchin made his break with organized anarchism) make a few good points, but aren't ideologically or practically sound. The essays from the 90s are largely consistent and make some excellent arguments in favor of direct democracy and democratic confederalism. His critique of the mistakes made by anarchists during the Spanish Civil war should be required reading for all anarchists and syndicalists. Bookchin has a unique perspective and doesn't idealize past anarchist movements like a lot of us tend to do. Some of his ideas could likely lay the groundwork for a successful libertarian society in our not-too-distant future. This book, and most of his work from the 60s to the end of the 90s, is definitely worth reading for anyone interested in libertarian solutions to social problems.
- This is just a collection of essays by Mr. Bookchin, some of which are very repetitive. On occasion, there are some real clear and profound thoughts about capitalism or the environment, but for the most part, it's the same old dialectic this, and maximum program that. He's a good writer, there's no doubt about that though. I'm also concerned that he lacks experience in actual municipal politics, for a person advocating it as the primary governmental unit. Furthermore, he spends most of the book (or essays) fighting off other radicals. He lived in America, he should have spent more time relating his theories to people in the center who are looking for a path forward, not fighting other marxists. His arguments that any type of revolution (even peaceful/non-violent) rather than reform to the republic/federalist system were ineffective.
- 5 stars.
- Einstein said, "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Murray Bookchin has suggestions for doing something about it, and they're outlined in this new collection of essays.
Bookchin's answer to out-of-control capitalism, ecological crisis, and financial collapse is a new politics that he calls "communalism" -- or at the practical level, "libertarian municipalism." This is not a rehash of socialism or anarchism, which Bookchin criticizes, giving multiple reasons for their failures. Bookchin, although a radical leftist, does not shy away from the need for organization in any new system of governance.
These nine essays are dense with ideas, but very readable. The Next Revolution is a welcome addition to the impressive oeuvre of Murray Bookchin.
