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Debbie Bookchin and Blair Taylor present "The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy"

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Thursday, January 8th 2015

7:30 pm

Red Emma's

Murray Bookchin was one of the most influential anarchist thinkers of the second half of the 20th century; his vision of "social ecology" and "libertarian municipalism" have been incredibly pervasive reference points for anyone trying to think through the outlines of the new world in our hearts, and his Institute for Social Ecology laid the groundwork for a whole generation of social anarchists in North America.  His influence continues to be felt—for instance in the autonomous Kurdish communities, where Bookchin's ideas have provided key inspiration for the construction of a free society.   We're super excited to be hosting an event for this new collection of his writings on direct democracy and popular assemblies!  

About the book:

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. A pioneering voice in the ecology and anarchist movements, he is the author of The Ecology of Freedom and Post-Scarcity Anarchism among many other books.

About the editors:

Debbie Bookchin is an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, The New York Times, HarperCollins Best Science Writing, and numerous other publications. Her investigation into contaminated polio vaccine and FDA's close ties to pharmaceutical companies resulted in her acclaimed book The Virus and The Vaccine, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004). She served as Press Secretary to U.S. Congressman Bernie Sanders between 1991 and 1994.

Blair Taylor is a visiting fellow at the Einstein Crisis Research Group at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he is completing a doctorate in politics from the New School for Social Research.

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