They Can't Represent Us!

"Here is one of the first books to assert that mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece, Argentina, and the United States share an agenda--to raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalist movements, including Occupy, exercise and claim participatory democracy as the ground of revolutionary social change today. Written by two international activist intellectuals and based on extensive interviews with movement participants in Spain, Venezuela, Japan, across the United States, and elsewhere, this book is both one of the most expansive portraits of the assemblies, direct democracy forums, and organizational forms championed by the new movements, and an analytical history of direct and participatory democracy from ancient Athens to Athens today. The new movements put forward the idea that liberal democracy is not democratic, nor was it ever"--

ldquo;The movements documented in this volume succeeded in shutting cities down through tremendous shows of force. And when you shut down a city, you can actually stop capital accumulation … Until we start building a truly democratic society, we will continue to see our good ideas co-opted by capital.” From the foreword by David Harvey


Praise for Marina Sitrin's Horizontalism:

"This book is riveting, moving, and profoundly important for those who want to know what revolution in our time might look like."—Rebecca Solnit

Praise for Dario Azzellini's Ours to Master and Own:

"The most substantial and comprehensive work on workers' control and self-management today."—Gary Younge, Nation

Autorentext
Marina Sitrin is a Visiting Scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center.

She holds a PhD in Global Sociology and JD in International Women's Human Rights. She is the author of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina (AK Press) Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (Zed Books), the co-author of They Can't Represent US: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (Verso Books).

Her work focuses on social movements and justice, specifically looking at new forms of social organization, such as autogestión, horizontalidad, prefigurative politics and new affective social relationships.

Klappentext
Drawing on interviews with key activists from across the world, this intriguing new book explores how global movements are putting forward a radical new conception of democracy.


Zusammenfassung
How the new global movements are putting forward a radical conception of democracy.

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