Three tools for the radicalization of urban democracy
- The crisis that began in 2008 has taught us how, in a capitalist system, the economic dimension dominates the political dimension. The misery of a civilization that has left the regulation of collective lives in the hands of the market has been exposed: Evictions, cutbacks, precariousness, social depression, unemployment, etc. Democracy? At the edges of the market system, limited to a contemporary ritual every four years. Willingness to change in the face of the unfortunate spectacle in several cities: "Real democracy NOW! ".
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