Towards an Inclusive Democracy: The Crisis of the Growth Economy and the Need for a New Liberatory Project (Global Issues)
Towards an Inclusive Democracy: The Crisis of the Growth Economy and the Need for a New Liberatory Project (Global Issues) by Takis Fotopoulos
English | May 5, 1998 | ISBN: 0304336289 | 417 Pages | PDF | 11 MB
English | May 5, 1998 | ISBN: 0304336289 | 417 Pages | PDF | 11 MB
An analysis of the growth economy, this book traces the causes of the present crisis in the modern market system, initiated two centuries ago with the establishment of the market economy system which has led to the present growth economy. It concludes that a true democracy can only be derived from a synthesis of the democratic and socialist traditions, along with the radical green, feminist and libertarian ideologies. To this end, this text offers a new vision of an inclusive democracy.
The collapse of 'actually existing socialism' does not reflect the 'triumph of capitalism', as celebrated by its ideologues. Nor, of course, does it provide justification for a social system which, in its present universality, condemns to misery and insecurity the vast majority of the world population and threatens the planet with an ecological catastrophe. Furthermore, it does not herald the historical victory of Western 'socialist' statism over Eastern 'socialist' statism, as social democrats have hastened to declare.