Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics

ISBN-13: 9780367665944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 258 str.

James Muldoon

Opis

This timely read provides students and scholars with innovative analyses of the councils. It offers new analytic frameworks for conceptualising the relationship between politics and the economy and contributes to emerging debates within political theory on workplace, economic and council democracy.

Spis treści

1. Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics  [James Muldoon]  Part I: The Councils in Historical Perspective  2. The Development of Workers’ Councils: Between Spontaneity and Organisation  [Donny Gluckstein]  3. Rediscovering the Hamburg Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils  [Gaard Kets and James Muldoon]  Part II: Councils, the State and the Problem of Socialisation  4. In Defence of Council Democracy  [Gabriel Wollner]  5. Council Democracy and the Socialisation Dilemma  [Nicholas Vrousalis]  6. A Theory of Council Republicanism  [Michael J. Thompson]  Part III: The Councils in Radical Democratic Theory  7. The Councils as Ontological Form: Cornelius Castoriadis and the Autonomous Potential of Council Democracy  [Christopher Holman]  8. Hannah Arendt, the Council System, and Contemporary Political Theory  [Shmuel Lederman]  9. The Self-Limiting Revolution and the Mixed Constitution of Socialist Democracy: Claude Lefort’s Vision of Council Democracy  [Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen]  Part IV: Beyond the Councils  10. After the Councils: Opposing Domination and Developing Democratic Agency  [John Medearis]  11. The Case for Workplace Democracy  [David Ellerman]  12. The Legacy of Workers’ Councils in Contemporary Social Movements  [Dario Azzellini]

O autorze

James Muldoon is a lecturer in political science at the University of Exeter. His main research interests are in democratic theory, socialism and the history of political thought. His work has appeared in History of Political Thought, Political Studies, Theory, Culture & Society, Constellations and Critical Horizons.