A review by daytonm
The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy by Murray Bookchin

3.0

So after reading three of his books this summer (plus a fourth he co-wrote), I'd say there are few if any authors with whom I agree more on sort of the broader outlines of what a moral society might look like (in this book best summarized in "The Ecological Crisis and the Need to Remake Society"). But on the specifics there are some things in this book that frustrated me, both stylistically (overconfidence) and substantively (vague on some crucial issues, also seems less engaged with climate/environment than he did in the '60s).

My favorite essay from this book, though I didn't always agree, was "Nationalism and the 'National Question.' " But despite a few great essays the book as a whole is kind of repetitive. And it's way less eco-conscious and way more Western-centric than The Ecology of Freedom.