Transitional strategies and the Inclusive Democracy project

TAKIS FOTOPOULOS

Abstract The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to critically assess the various transitional strategies for radical social change which have been proposed in the past, as well as some recently developed strategies, like the civil societarian approach, the Libertarian Municipalism strategy and the ‘lifestyle’ strategies. Second, to propose a new transitional strategy which aims at the transition to a confederal Inclusive Democracy. In this context, the emancipatory subject in present society is discussed, a new type of politics and political organisation is suggested, and a series of steps for the transition to a political, economic, ecological democracy, as well as a ‘democracy in the social realm’ is proposed.
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Democracy & Nature
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY

Volume 8 Number 1, March 2002


Our Aims 5

Contributors 11

Editorial 13

TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY AND RADICAL MOVEMENTS
Transitional strategies and the Inclusive Democracy project by Takis Fotopoulos 17

An Examination of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and New Political Participation by Iain Watson 63 (Abstract)

Latin America: Popular Movements in Neoliberal Modernity by Alexandros Gezerlis 87

Ecological Crisis, Poverty and Urban Development in Latin America by Guido Pascual Galafassi 117 (Abstract)

Human Ecology and Public Policy: Overcoming the Hegemony of Economics by Arran Gare 131 (Abstract)


Dialogue Section
Debating the significance of the Global Eco-village Movement : A reply to Takis Fotopoulos by Ted Trainer 143

Response to Democracy & Nature Editorial on "Violent Myths" by Thomas Martin 159

Social stratification - consensus - participation. A reply to Takis Fotopoulos’ critique of systems theory by Giancarlo Corsi 171


Book Review
Andrew Newberg, Eugene D' Aquili and Vince Rause, Why God won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief by Alexandros Gezerlis 175

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