They Can't Represent Us!

Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy

By: Marina Sitrin, Dario Azzellini

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Paperback | 1 July 2014 | Edition Number 1

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From one of the key organizes of Occupy Wall Street and a leading activist in European social movements comes a book that shows a common thread in the recent upsurge in mass protests from Argentina to Greece to the Middle East to New York. The new movements, argue Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini, put forward a new conception of participatory democracy, challenging the idea that liberal, representative democracy - let alone the authoritarian regimes being challenged in the Middle East - is democratic, nor ever was.
To make the argument and illustrate the kinds of democratic thinking being pioneered by the new movements, They Can t Represent Us! is propelled by scores of interviews with leading activists in Europe, South America, the Middle East, and Asia, allowing readers entry to a fascinating array of protest and prefigurative movements across the world.
The book provides one of the most extensive portraits of the assemblies, direct democracy forums, factory takeovers, cooperatives, and organizational forms championed by the new movements, and its truly global focus provides a kind of political travelogue of the cutting edge of global activism.

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"This book is riveting, moving, and profoundly important for those who want to know what revolution in our time might look like." - Rebecca Solnit, on Marina Sitrin's Horizontalism "The most substantial and comprehensive work on workers' control and self-management today." - Gary Younge, on Dario Azzellini's Ours to Master and to Own "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

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