Takis Fotopoulos

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

Life

Shortly after Fotopoulos' birth in Chios, his family moved to Athens. After graduating with degrees in economics , political science and law , he moved to London in 1966 for postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science , where he still lives today. There he was a student unionist and political activist in the 1968 movement . He participated in the organization of the left of Greece during the fight against the military junta from 1967 to 1974. He worked for over twenty years as a lecturer at the University of North London and was then editor of the journal Democracy & Nature and the online magazine The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy . He is also a columnist for the Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia .

Inclusive Democracy

The main work of Fotopulos is Towards an Inclusive Democracy , which has so far been translated into six languages ​​and has been published in German as comprehensive democracy .

The starting point for Fotopoulos' work is that the world is in a "multi-dimensional (political, economic, social, ecological and cultural) crisis " that is caused by the concentration of power in the hands of elites as a result of the market economy, the representative Democracy and other forms of hierarchical structures. Takis Fotopoulos proposes the creation of “a new form of political, social and economic organization that ensures an equal distribution of power among the citizens on all these levels” . In doing so, comprehensive democracy adopts ideas of direct democracy and anarchism, in which demotic assemblies are proposed as decision-makers that are federated on a regional, national, continental and global level .

At the smallest level, Fotopoulos proposes the self-management of production facilities such as factories and offices and of educational and cultural institutions, which also include the media. Workers' , student councils , etc. should ensure the self-administration of the production facilities and the educational system, and be guided by the goals set by the demotic assemblies and the preferences of the citizens as producers and consumers.

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  1. ↑ and describes this form of social organization as comprehensive democracy (English: Inclusive Democracy) The goals of inclusive democracy , accessed on December 30, 2017.
  2. ↑ demotic: Greek for popular, community
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SURNAME Fotopoulos, Takis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Phōtopulos, Takēs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek philosopher, economist, author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Chios