Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century by Spannos, Chris

Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century

What if we had direct control over our daily lives? What if society's defining institutions--those encompassing economics,...
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Author: Chris Spannos
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Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century by Spannos, Chris

Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century

€31,47

Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century

€31,47
Author: Chris Spannos
Format: Paperback
Language: English

What if we had direct control over our daily lives? What if society's defining institutions--those encompassing economics, politics, kinship, culture, community, and ecology--were based not on competition, individual ownership, and coercion, but on self-management, equity, solidarity, and diversity? Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.

Instead of simply declaring "another world is possible," the writers in this collection engage with what that world would look like, how it would function, and how our commitment to just outcomes is related to the sort of institutions we maintain. Topics include: participatory economics, political vision, education, architecture, artists in a free society, environmentalism, work after capitalism, and poly-culturalism. The catchall phrase here is "participatory society"--one that is directly democratic and seeks institutional solutions to complex sociological and economic questions.

Contributors include: Michael Albert, Barbara Ehrenreich, Steve Shalom, Robin Hahnel, Maria Trigona, Justin Podur, Tom Wetzel, Cynthia Peters, Andrej Grubacic, and Mandisi Majavu, among others.

Chris Spannos is an activist, organizer, and anti-capitalist. He is a full-time staff member of the internationally acclaimed ZNet, a website dedicated to social change, hosting works by many of today's leading social commentators, organizers, activists, and analysts, with 300,000 users weekly. He resides in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.



Author: Chris Spannos
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.87h x 6.09w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9781904859789

About the Author
Chris Spannos is a full-time staff member with Z, he works primarily on the internationally acclaimed ZNet, a web site dedicated to social change hosting works by many of today's leading social commentators, organizers, activists, and analysts. In addition to Real Utopia, he is also editing Hope, Reason & Revolution for AK Press.

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