Takis Fotopoulos

Takis Fotopoulos ( Τάκης Φωτόπουλος, born October 14, 1940, Chios) is a Greek political philosopher and economist and has lived in London since 1966. He is the editor of the journal Democracy & Nature (1992-2003) and since 2004 the following online journal The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy. Fotopoulos is the author of Inclusive Democracy and founder of the movement of the same name. He dares the synthesis of classical democratic traditions with the libertarian socialism and the radical currents in the new social movements.

Life

Shortly after Fotopoulos ' birth on Chios, his family moved to Athens. After he had taken degrees in economics, political science and law, he moved for postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1966 to London, where he still lives today. There he was a student unionist and political activist in the '68 movement. He participated in the organization of the left Greece during the struggle against the military junta from 1967 to 1974. He worked over twenty years as a lecturer at the University of North London and then became editor of the journal Democracy & Nature, and the online magazine, The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy. He is also a columnist in the Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia.

Inclusive Democracy

The main work is Fotopulos Towards an Inclusive Democracy, which has been translated into six languages ​​and has appeared on German as Inclusive Democracy.

The starting point for Fotopoulos ' work is that the world is in a " multi-dimensional ( political, economic, social, environmental and cultural ) crisis " located by the concentration of power in the hands of elites, as a result of the market economy, the representative 'll caused democracy and other forms of hierarchical structures. Takis Fotopoulos proposes " of a new form of political, social and economic organization, which provides at all these levels for an equal division of power among the citizens " the creation. The Inclusive Democracy takes ideas of direct democracy and anarchism, are proposed in the demotic assemblies as decision-makers, the federate on a regional, national, continental and global levels.

On the smallest level Fotopoulos proposes the self-management of production facilities such as factories and offices and the educational and cultural institutions that also include the media. Worker, student councils, etc. to provide for the self-management of production, education and be guided thereby the goals set by the by the demotic assemblies and the preferences of citizens as producers and consumers.