Inclusive Democracy: A new liberatory project

Salutes to all of you from Barcelona. I'm an activist on promoting the project for an Inclusive Democracy. This is a project for a new stateless, moneyless and marketless (well, there's an artificial one for non-basic goods) society, based on a true political democracy (direct democracy), an economic democracy, democracy at social level and an ecological democracy.

The project shows how that would be feasible, makes an antisystemic analisis of Modernity (characterized by the market economy and representative "democracy", institutionalized 200 years ago) and proposes a strategy for a transition from here to there.

I think a project like that it's the only real way out of the multidimensional crisis, which comes as a result of the concentration of power at all levels (economic, political, social...) and the dynamics of concentration of power are intrinsic in market economy and representative oligarchy, as the dynamic of grow-or-die is.


Well, I invite all of you to take a look to the project. I consider myself a punk and an anarchist, but I think power has always been and will be there, as the capacity and responsibility of taking decicions (that's what I don't think in terms of "anarchy"), the point is if power is equally shared among all the people, what would be an autonomous/free/democratic society , or if it's concentrated in a few hands!! as today, in this oligarchy/dictatorship inadequately called democracy (the Fundation Fathers did lietarly invent the idea of "representative democracy", democracy had never had nothing to do with this), which is an heterenomous society.


That's all, I've just joined this net. I leave you the beginning of the Introdution of the book "The multidimensional crisis and Inclusive Democracy", which was written in 2005 and is a more synthethic version the project, described widely in "Towards an Inclusive Democracy" (1997).


THE LINK OF THE BOOK AND THE PROLOGUE:

http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journ ... 20Book.pdf

Today, after the collapse of socialist statism, either in the form of “actually existing socialism” in the East or in the form of social democracy in the West, there is a historic opportunity for the regeneration of this tradition. Particularly so, when it is now obvious that the “social Europe”, which is supposedly created by the take over of power by centre-Left governments –with the help of the Green parties which abandoned any liberatory pretence– is singularly inappropriate to reverse the present huge concentration of power, which is the cause of the present crisis. This concentration, in turn, is the inevitable outcome of the separation of society from polity and the economy that was institutioned all over the world in the last few centuries, through the installation of representative “democracy” and the market economy respectively. In fact, within the present internationalised market economy, no controls to protect society and nature effectively from the workings of the market, not even the type of controls introduced by socialdemocratic governments in the past, are feasible anymore. At the same time, neoliberal globalisation itself is irreversible, since it represents the inevitable outcome of the market economy’s grow-or-die dynamics. However, a regeneration of the democratic tradition today is incompatible with the postmodern abandonment of any universalist political project for the sake of a pseudo-pluralistic celebration of “difference” and “identity”, which however takes for granted representative “democracy” and the market economy, i.e. the present universal institutions for the concentration of political and economic power. At the beginning of a new millennium, the need to formulate a new liberatory project for today’s reality and 2 takis fotopoulos consequently the need for a new “antisystemic” movement aiming at establishing the institutional preconditions for an inclusive democracy, is imperative. Therefore, the project for an Inclusive Democracy is proposed not just as another libertarian utopia but, in effect, as perhaps the only realistic way out of the multidimensional crisis, in an effort to integrate society with polity, the economy, and Nature. This book has one aim and one ambition. The aim is to show that the way out of the present multi-dimensional crisis can only be found from without rather than from within the present institutional framework. The ambition is to initiate a discussion concerning the need for a new liberatory project and the strategies for implementing it.



Salutes for all of you comrades. Discuss, reflection, transformation!!


Joan


If someone understands spanish or catalan, there is our spanish site of Democracia Inclusiva: http://democraciainclusiva.org

If someone is coming to Barcelona, or whatever, can contact me! joanpedragosa@hotmail.com


Hugs


WE CANNOT BE JUST "RESISTANCE" ANYMORE!! WE HAVE TO START THINKING HOW WE CAN CHANGE THIS ROTTEN WORLD, THIS CRIMINAL SYSTEM, WE HAVE TO THINK HOW WE CAN CONSTRUCT, AND START CONSTRUCTING!!