The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy PDF TAKIS FOTOPOULOS This IJID publication is an English translation of the book with the same title published in Athens in 2005. Copyright © reserved for the International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, 2005.

CONTENTS

PART I: THE PRESENT MULTIDIMENSIONAL CRISIS

Chapter 1: The emergence of the present system

Capitalism or market economy?

The shift to modernity

The rise of the market economy

The emergence of representative ‘democracy’

Chapter 2: Forms of modernity

Liberal modernity

Statist modernity

Neoliberal modernity

Chapter 3: The Internationalisation of the market economy

Neoliberal globalisation

The State in neoliberal modernity

The new Transnational Elite

Chapter 4: Globalisation and the Left

Reformist Left and Globalisation

The myth of globalisation as an ideology

Globalisation as an ‘empire’

Chapter 5: Growth economy and growth ideology

The rise of the growth economy

Capitalist and socialist growth economy

Growth economy and growth ideology

Concentration: the inevitable outcome of market economy’s dynamics

Chapter 6: The causes of the collapse of the socialist project

The decline of socialist statism

The causes of the collapse of ‘actually existing socialism’

The causes of the decline of social democracy

Chapter 7: The ecological failure of the growth economy

The end of growth ideology

The ecological failure of growth economy

The ecological dimension of ‘development’

Chapter 8: The failure of the growth economy in the South

The growth economy and ‘development’

The rise and fall of the growth economy in the South

Toward a new "North-South" divide

Development or Democracy?

Chapter 9: The dimensions of the multidimensiuonal crisis

The economic dimension

The political dimension

The social dimension

The cultural dimension

The ideological dimension

The ecological dimension

Chapter 10 : Is there a way out of the crisis?

The liberal answer : more marketisation

The socialist answer: enhancing the ‘civil society’

The need for a new liberatoty project

PART II: A NEW LIBERATORY PROJECT

Chapter 11: The meaning of democracy

What is democracy?

The Athenian conception of democracy

The Liberal Conception of Democracy

The Marxist-Leninist conception of democracy

The conceptions of “radical “ democracy

Chapter 12 : The foundations of the new liberatory project

What is the foundation of freedom and democracy?

Toward a democratic rationalism

Chapter 13: Direct Political Democracy

The meaning of political democracy

Confederal democracy

The attacks against direct democracy

Chapter 14: Economic democracy

The meaning of economic democracy

A model of economic democracy

Demotic Self-reliance

Demotic Ownership of Productive Resources

Confederal allocation of resources

Chapter 15: The other elements of Inclusive Democracy

Democracy in the social realm

Ecological democracy

A democratic conception of citizenship

Chapter 16: The transition to an Inclusive Democracy