%0 Journal Article
%T Q&A on the economic model of Inclusive Democracy
%A Takis Fotopoulos
%A ATTAC Academie Workshop (Madeburg
%A Germany
%A July
%A 2010)
%J International Journal of Inclusive Democracy
%D 2010
%I The International Network for Inclusive Democracy
%X A general point about the questions asked by the workshopThe questions in general show a significant degree of misunderstanding about the nature of the ID project which, unlike for instance Parecon, is not just a narrow economic model expressing the "vision" of some intellectuals about an alternative economy, supplemented by some half baked ideas about the political institutions which are compatible with the economic model ¨Da sort of so-called "participatory democracy". Instead, the Inclusive Democracy project is a full-fledged political project with its own historical analysis of present reality, and a proposal for an economic democracy as part of an Inclusive Democracy (direct political democracy, ecological democracy and democracy in the social realm) which is not just a "vision" but a synthesis as well as a transcendence of the historical trends for autonomous forms of social organisation which re-appear in every major insurrection or revolution. Finally, the ID project is complemented by a new transitional strategy leading us from here to there.So, the following answers represent a clarification of some of the questions raised, which however betray a kind of demand for full details on various very specific points ignoring the fundamental fact on which economic democracy is based, i.e. that, at this stage, all we can do is make some proposals on general principles which show the feasibility and desirability of an ID-based society and not provide a "cookery book" for the future society. It is the function of the assemblies of the future to fill in the details of economic organisation and not ours!
%K ATTAC
%K Inclusive Democracy
%K participatory democracy
%K Parecon
%U http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/pdf%20files/pdf%20vol6/Q&A%20on%20the%20economic%20model%20of%20Inclusive%20Democracy.pdf