Takis+Fotopoulos

**Takis Fotopoulos** was a political philosopher and also economist, who started and stood by his movement of inclusive democracy. Fotopoulos is known for his joining of democracy with socialism and the extreme movement in a new generation of social movements. He is the editor of The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, this journal took a higher standing then the Democracy and Nature. He was also the author of Towards An Inclusive Democracy, in which the foundations of the inclusive democracy project were set. ==== Takis Fotopoulos developed the political project of Inclusive Democracy in 1997. 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."// ==== Since then, a dialogue has followed in the pages of the journal, in which libertariansocialists like Cornelius Costardias ,Social Ecologists like Murray Bookchin, and Green activists and academics like Steven Best have taken part. ==== The beginning of Fotopoulos's work is that the world faces a multi-layer crisis; politically, economically, socially, and ecologically 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 or a "vision" but as perhaps the only way out of the present crisis, which trends towards its creation manifesting themselves today in many parts of the world. ====

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