INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY

 

This is the project for direct political democracy, economic democracy (beyond the confines of the market economy and state planning), as well as democracy in the social realm and ecological democracy. In short, Inclusive Democracy is a form of social organisation which re-integrates society with economy, polity and nature.

The concept of Inclusive Democracy is derived from a synthesis of two major historical traditions: the classical democratic and the socialist. It also encompasses radical green, feminist, indigenous and liberation movements in the South.

From the Inclusive Democracy perspective the world is in a multidimensional crisis, caused by the concentration of power in the hands of various elites, as a result of the establishment of the system of market/growth economy, representative democracy and the related forms of hierarchical structures. Inclusive Democracy is therefore not seen as a utopia but as probably the only way out of the present crisis.

Texts on the Inclusive Democracy project can be found in: Democracy & Nature; The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy; Takis Fotopoulos' Archive and the (Greek) Periektiki Dimokratia (Περιεκτική Δημοκρατία) (a journal for the promotion of Inclusive Democracy in Greece).