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Council Democracy - Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics (Paperback)
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Council Democracy - Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory
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The return to public assemblies and direct democratic methods in
the wave of the global "squares movements" since 2011 has
rejuvenated interest in forms of council organisation and action.
The European council movements, which developed in the immediate
post-First World War era, were the most impressive of a number of
attempts to develop workers' councils throughout the twentieth
century. However, in spite of the recent challenges to liberal
democracy, the question of council democracy has so far been
neglected within democratic theory. This book seeks to interrogate
contemporary democratic institutions from the perspective of the
resources that can be drawn from a revival and re-evaluation of the
forgotten ideal of council democracy. This collection brings
together democratic theorists, socialists and labour historians on
the question of the relevance of council democracy for contemporary
democratic practices. Historical reflection on the councils opens
our political imagination to an expanded scope of the possibilities
for political transformation by drawing from debates and events at
an important historical juncture before the dominance of current
forms of liberal democracy. It offers a critical perspective on the
limits of current democratic regimes for enabling widespread
political participation and holding elites accountable. This timely
read provides students and scholars with innovative analyses of the
councils on the 100th anniversary of their development. It offers
new analytic frameworks for conceptualising the relationship
between politics and the economy and contributes to emerging
debates within political theory on workplace, economic and council
democracy.
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