New Politics from the Left Wainwright HilaryPaperback
New Politics from the Left Wainwright HilaryPaperback Millions of people passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity, authoritarianism and fear. They are inventing a new politics based on…
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New Politics from the Left Wainwright HilaryPaperback
Millions of people passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity, authoritarianism and fear. They are inventing a new politics based on principles of participatory democracy, co-operation and self-government. They reject both corporate capitalism and an elite political system over which they have no control, but they are sceptical of the traditional weapons of the left: seizing state power and devising top-down solutions.
Power should not be exercised as domination, the imposition of paternalistic rule by well-meaning experts, but as a collaborative exercise in nurturing and asserting the transformative capacity of the many. In this urgent and original polemic, activist and academic Hilary Wainwright shows that this new politics must start from sharing the tacit knowledge and creativity of each individual. Wainwright analyses what this new politics can learn from recent history,
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