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Book SynopsisHave we now reached 'the end of history' with the triumph of capitalist liberal democracy? Is socialism an enemy of democracy? Or could socialism develop, expand and enhance democracy?
Table of Contents* Greg Albo: Rethinking socialism and democracy: new strategies - or detours?; * Sheila Rowbotham: Women, democracy and revolution; * Martijn Konings: Neoliberalism and democracy; * Alex Demirovic: Radical democracy, post-democracy, socialist democracy; * Dennis Pilon: Proportional representation as a democratic class project; * Catarina Principe: Can the EU be democratized? The centrality of the nation-state; * Magnus Ryner: Authoritarian EU neoliberalism versus democratic agency; * Pete Ramand: Referenda and democracy: Lessons from Scotland and Brexit; * Sharryn Kasmir: Rethinking democracy, rethinking coops and unions; * Adam Hilton: Organized for Democracy? Challenging the US Democratic Party; * Des Freedman & Natalie Fenton: What does it mean to break up media power?; * Nina Power: Digital democracy?; * Tom Mills: Beyond public broadcasting: Democratic alternatives to the BBC; * Massimilliano Mollona: Artists and new democratic urban spaces in Europe; * Ramon Ribera Fumaz: The Rebel Cities: Radical Democracy in Barcelona and Madrid; * Daniel Chavez: Polis and demos: participatory urban planning; * Leandro Vergara-Camus & Cristobal Kay: Agrarian democracy? Latin American experience and prospect; * Michelle Williams: The practice of democratic communism: Kerala & S Africa; * Ian McKay: Redeeming liberal democracy in Marxist theory; * Jason Schulman: Communism: Classless democracy or the administration of things?; * Madeleine Davis: Retrieving the new left's vision of socialist democracy.
