Social Structures of Direct Democracy : On the Political Economy of Equality.

By: Asimakopoulos, JohnMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Critical Social Sciences SerPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004262751Subject(s): Direct democracy | Equality | Social structureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social Structures of Direct Democracy : On the Political Economy of EqualityDDC classification: 321.8 LOC classification: JC423.A775 2014ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Social Structures of Direct Democracy -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Theory, Praxis, and Change -- The Ragged Edge of Anarchy: Direct Democracy -- Mutualism -- Collectivism -- Communist Anarchism -- Conflict Theory -- Why Capitalism Must Always Collapse -- The Relationship between Change and Radicalism -- Structural Limitations to Change -- Insurrection versus Revolution -- A Case Study in Political Revolution: Egypt -- Does Direct Democracy Require Small-scale Societies? -- McDonald's Iron Cage -- 2 Relations of Authority -- The Fraud of Representative Democracy -- The Best Democracy Money Can Buy -- Stealing Democracy Old School -- Political Parties -- A Path to Direct Democracy -- Economic Authority -- Political Authority -- Constitution -- 3 Material Relations -- Economic Utilities of Direct Democracy -- Markets and Prices -- Currency, Income, Banking, and Credit -- Profit and Worker-owned Firms -- Authority over Productive Property -- Innovation and Small Business -- Relations of Consumption -- Income Distribution -- Regulated Labor Markets: Hiring Halls -- Distribution of Productive Property -- Resource Use -- What to Produce -- How to Produce -- Can the System Adapt? -- 4 Social Structure -- Culture and Social Integration -- Organizing Principles of Social Structure -- Social Statuses -- Social Roles -- Virtual Worlds -- Institutions and Socialization -- Religion -- Family and Sexuality -- Education -- The Means of Violence -- Compulsion and Discipline -- Journalism -- The Social Network: The Future that Can be Now -- Conclusion: No Islands of Egalitarianism in a Sea of Inequality -- Afterword: What Can Grow in the Graveyard for Orthodoxies? -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In Social Structures of Direct Democracy John Asimakopoulos develops a political economy of structural equality making strong empirical arguments for radical transformation toward direct democracy by filling positions of political and economic authority with randomly selected citizens.
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Intro -- Social Structures of Direct Democracy -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Theory, Praxis, and Change -- The Ragged Edge of Anarchy: Direct Democracy -- Mutualism -- Collectivism -- Communist Anarchism -- Conflict Theory -- Why Capitalism Must Always Collapse -- The Relationship between Change and Radicalism -- Structural Limitations to Change -- Insurrection versus Revolution -- A Case Study in Political Revolution: Egypt -- Does Direct Democracy Require Small-scale Societies? -- McDonald's Iron Cage -- 2 Relations of Authority -- The Fraud of Representative Democracy -- The Best Democracy Money Can Buy -- Stealing Democracy Old School -- Political Parties -- A Path to Direct Democracy -- Economic Authority -- Political Authority -- Constitution -- 3 Material Relations -- Economic Utilities of Direct Democracy -- Markets and Prices -- Currency, Income, Banking, and Credit -- Profit and Worker-owned Firms -- Authority over Productive Property -- Innovation and Small Business -- Relations of Consumption -- Income Distribution -- Regulated Labor Markets: Hiring Halls -- Distribution of Productive Property -- Resource Use -- What to Produce -- How to Produce -- Can the System Adapt? -- 4 Social Structure -- Culture and Social Integration -- Organizing Principles of Social Structure -- Social Statuses -- Social Roles -- Virtual Worlds -- Institutions and Socialization -- Religion -- Family and Sexuality -- Education -- The Means of Violence -- Compulsion and Discipline -- Journalism -- The Social Network: The Future that Can be Now -- Conclusion: No Islands of Egalitarianism in a Sea of Inequality -- Afterword: What Can Grow in the Graveyard for Orthodoxies? -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Social Structures of Direct Democracy John Asimakopoulos develops a political economy of structural equality making strong empirical arguments for radical transformation toward direct democracy by filling positions of political and economic authority with randomly selected citizens.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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