Takis Fotopoulos
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Takis Fotopoulos (
Early life
Fotopoulos was born on the Greek island of
Academia and afterwards
Fotopoulos was a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Polytechnic of North London from 1969 to 1989, until he began editing the journal Society & Nature, later Democracy & Nature and subsequently the online International Journal of Inclusive Democracy.[2][3] He was also a columnist of Eleftherotypia,[5] the second-biggest newspaper in Greece.[6]
Inclusive Democracy
Fotopoulos developed the political project of Inclusive Democracy (ID) in 1997 (an exposition can be found in Towards An Inclusive Democracy). The first issue of Society & Nature declared that:
our ambition is to initiate an urgently needed dialogue on the crucial question of developing a new liberatory social project, at a moment in History when the Left has abandoned this traditional role.[7]
It specified that the new project should be seen as the outcome of a synthesis of the democratic, libertarian socialist and
The starting point for Fotopoulos' work is that the world faces a multi-dimensional crisis (economic, ecological, social, cultural and political) which is caused by the concentration of power in elites, as a result of the market economy, representative democracy and related forms of hierarchical structure. An inclusive democracy, which involves the equal distribution of power at all levels, is seen not as a utopia (in the negative sense of the word) or a "vision" but as perhaps the only way out of the present crisis, with trends towards its creation manifesting themselves today in many parts of the world. Fotopoulos is in favor of
Selected bibliography
- Towards An Inclusive Democracy. The Crisis of the Growth Economy and the Need for a New Liberatory Project (London/New York: Cassell Continuum, 1997), 401 pp. ISBN 0-304-33627-0and 0-304-33628-9.
- Education, Culture and Modernization, ed. by Peter Alheit et al. (Roskide University, 1995). (Takis Fotopoulos contribution: "The crisis of the growth economy, the withering away of the nation-state and the community-based society").
- Defending Public Schools, ed. by David A. Gabbard & E. Wayne Ross (Praeger, 2004). (Takis Fotopoulos contribution: "The State, the Market and (Mis-)education").
- Critical Perspectives on Globalisation, ed. by Robert Hunter Wade, Marina Della Giusta and Uma Kambhampati (Chelthenham, UK & Northampton, MA US: Edward Elgar publishing, 2006). (Takis Fotopoulos contribution: "The global 'war' of the transnational elite").
- Eco-socialism as Politics: Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation ed. by Qingzhi Huan (Springer, 1st Edition, 2010, XI), 224 p., Hardcover, ISBN 978-90-481-3744-2. (Takis Fotopoulos contribution: "The De-growth Utopia: The Incompatibility of De-growth within an Internationalised Market Economy").
- Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex ed. by A.J.Nocella, Steven Best, Peter McLaren (AK Press, Oakland, CA & Edinburgh, 2010), 590 p, paperback, ISBN 978-1-904859-98-7. (Takis Fotopoulos contribution: "Systemic Aspects of Academic Repression in the New World Order". A full versionof this essay is published in The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol. 4, No. 4 (October 2008).
- Critical Pedagogy in the new dark ages: challenges and possibilities, ed by Maria Nikolakaki (Peter Lang Publishing, 2012), ISBN 978-1433114274. (Takis Fotopoulos contribution: "From (mis)education to Paedeia," pp. 81–119.)
- Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, ed by Frederic L. Bender (second revised edition; New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2013), ISBN 978-0393935608. (Takis Fotopoulos & A. Gezerlis contribution: "Hardt & Negri's Empire: A new Communist Manifesto or a reformist Welcome to Neoliberal Globalization?," (extract), pp. 232–34.)
- The New World Order in Action. Vol. 1: Globalization, the Brexit Revolution and the 'Left' - Towards a Democratic Community of Sovereign Nations (San Diego, Cal., US: Progressive Press, 2016). ISBN 978-1615772476.
See also
Notes
- ^ He was elected as a member of the Administrative Council of the Law students Union in 1958-59, following the first victory of a Left alliance in which he participated against EKOF, an extreme right wing student association controlled by the 'deep' Greek state, which a few years later, in 1963, was responsible for the murder of Left parliamentarian Grigoris Lambrakis and 4 years later of the military coup which led to the military dictatorship (1967-74).
References
- ^ Le Monde Libertaire(Book review) (in French). 1311.
- ^ a b Takis Fotopoulos bio at Bloomsburry Publishing/Continuum's website.
- ^ a b Takis Fotopoulos bio at eipcp's (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies) website.
- ^ As testified by the Left composer Lakis Karalis in an interview in the Athens newspaper Eleftherotypia (06/09/2008) and in an Arts web site Προβολέας Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ (in Greek) Archive of Takis Fotopoulos' articles at the website of Eleftherotypia
- ^ Smith, Helena (12 June 2012). "Greek journalists return to work unpaid for what may be paper's last edition". The Guardian.
- ^ Editorial
- ^ Our Aims @ Society and Nature/Democracy and Nature's website
- ^ Jorge Camil, review of Hacia Una Democracia Inclusiva (in Spanish), La Jornada, Friday, 8 June 2001.
- ^ Arran Gare, review of Towards an Inclusive Democracy, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 34 (1), Winter 2002, p. 97-99.
- ^ Michael Levin, review of Towards an Inclusive Democracy, Anarchist Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2, October 1997.
- ^ John Griffin, Dodgy Logic and the Olympians, Total Liberty, 1999-2000, p. 10-11.
- ^ James Herod, review of Towards an Inclusive Democracy, Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods, Lucy Parsons Center (first printing edition), May 2007.
- ^ Baer, Hans (November 19, 2020). "Towards an anti-capitalist synthesis: what can ecosocialists learn from ecoanarchists?". Green Left. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
Further reading
- Takis Fotopoulos, "Inclusive Democracy" entry in the Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy (ed. by Barry Jones), Vol. 2 (2001), pp. 732–740.
- “The Inclusive Democracy project – six years on“ (essays on the ID project by Michael Levin, Arran Gare, David Freeman, Serge Latouche, Jean-Claude Richard, Takis Nikolopoulos, Rafael Spósito, Guido Galafassi, Takis Fotopoulos and others), Democracy & Nature, Vol. 9, No. 3 (November 2003).
- “Debate on the Inclusive Democracy project (Parts I & II)“, The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol. 1, No. 2 (January 2005) and Vol. 1, No. 3 (May 2005).
- Takis Fotopoulos, "Inclusive Democracy" in Alternative Economies, Alternative Societies ed. by ISBN 978-3-85371-291-7.]
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Overviews
- "Inclusive Democracy" entry in the Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy (ed. by Barry Jones), Vol. 2 (2001), pp. 732–740.
- Takis Fotopoulos' Archive
Selected interviews
- "What is Inclusive Democracy? on YouTube. Takis Fotopoulos' Interview about Inclusive Democracy". Interview taken by Oliver Ressler for his video series Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies (2003-2008)(July 19, 2003). Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- Inclusive Democracy - A transcript of the video interview given by Takis Fotopoulos to Oliver Ressler for the project Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies (2003-2008) (Recorded in London, 2003). Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- Interview with Galina Tichinskaya for Pravda.ru: "Is there a way out of the crisis within EU? The case of Greece" on YouTube and transcript: "Is there a way out of the crisis within EU? The case of Greece"(26 February 2015).
- "On the rise of Neoliberalism: An Interview with Takis Fotopoulos" (8 May 2009). Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- Interview for Equal Time for Freethought radio show, [original aired as Show 247: Takis Fotopoulos, 30 December 2007; later due to its poor audio quality replaced and renamed Show 289: 1-Hour Special: A Prescription for Real Social Change.] (WBAI radio 99.5 FM, New York City, USA). transcript, audio (1:00:48 min).
Selected talks
- "Inclusive Democracy as a political project for a new libertarian synthesis: rationale, proposed social structure and transition" talk given by Takis Fotopoulos at the self-management(Barcelona, 10 April 2010). Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- Takis Fotopoulos talk on the Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy (Exeter College, University of Oxford, 12 November 2008). Video in 3 parts: Part 1 (talk), part 2 (talk/discussion), part 3 (discussion). Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- A talk given by Takis Fotopoulos about the Internationalization of the Capitalist Market Economy and the project of Inclusive Democracy (University of Vermont (US), 19 April 1996), followed by a discussion with Murray Bookchin, Dan Chodorkoff and others. Video in 3 parts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Retrieved 21 April 2014.