- Beyond the Abdication of Power
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Presents an argument against the views expressed by Kokopeli and Lakey in Leadership For Change. Raises thought provoking issues it raises and demonstrates situations and assumptions under which consensus is not appropriate.
- Blocking Progress
Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
- Bowling Alone
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
- Canada After Harper
His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
- Changing The Cogs
Activists and the Politics of Technology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
- Chomsky on MisEducation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- A Citizen Legislature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
Arguing from the premise that the present electoral system is unrepresentative and promotes corruption, the authors propose going back to the Athenian system of choosing representatives: by lottery.
- Communication for and Against Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Consensus decision-making
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
- Co-ops, Communes and Collectives: Experiments In Social Change in the 1960's and 1970's
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
Contains case studies of alternative organizations and articles addressing issues relevant to how such organizations function. Particularly good is Jane J. Mansbridge's paper, "The Agony of Inequality." Also recommended: "Conditions for Democracy: Making Participatory Organizations Work" Joyce Rothschild-Whitt.
- Curiouser and curiouser
Tea Party members aren't foaming at the mouth racist bigots
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
A journalist travels to the first National Tea Party Convention in Tennessee as a delegate and finds the other delegates privately share his disdain for the racism and conspiracy theories the group fosters. He describes the delegates as average voters baffled by Obama's health care bill and economic policies.
- Democracy - Democratization: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
- Democratic Theory
Essays in Retrieval
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Destroying the Commons
How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
- Direct Action for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
Direct action protests are about people taking power for themselves, instead of leaving politics to professional politicians.
- Direct democracy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A form of democracy wherein sovereignty is lodged in the assembly of all citizens who choose to participate.
- Drawing the Line
A pamphlet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
- Educating for a Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
- The Expo Files
Articles by the Crusading Journalist
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Collected here for the first time are Stieg Larsson's essays and articles on right-wing extremism and racism, on violence against women and women's rights, on homophobia and honour killings.
- 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
- The Great Turning
From Empire to Earth Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
- In Defence of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
On Jacques Berlinerblau's book How to Be Secular.
- Inventing the People
The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The author makes the case that the United States has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. Morgan ties the notion of popular sovereignty to the older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings."
- Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
- The Joy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
- The Mackenzie Institute
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
- The Meaning of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1996
Our democratic system: a safe election every four years or so in which voters choose between corporate-dominated parties whose policies are virtually indistinguishable on all fundamental issues.
- On Democracy As A Good
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Is democracy good in itself? Exploring the impact of democracy during and after the Arab Spring.
- On Organization
Resource Type: Article
Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
- On Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Arendt examines the American, French, and Russian revolutions and draws conclusions about the meaning of revolution.
- One Market Under God
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- One Vote for Democracy
Consensus vs. democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
- Our Generation
Volume 6 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1969
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- Passionate Declarations
Essays on War and Justice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Essays looking at American political ideology.
- People or Personnel and Like a Conquered Province
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Goodman offers his analysis of what is wrong with American society, and what could be done about it.
- Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
- Pragmatics of Community Organization
First Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization.
- Que se vayan todos! Krise und Widerstand in Argentinien
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
A collection of essays studying noncapitalist collectivism.
- Radical Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
- The Real World of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy — the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants — and their impacts on one another.
- Reveille for Radicals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
- Rights and Liberties
Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
- Socialism.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2016
A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
- The Straight Goods
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
- The Two Souls of Socialism
Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of socialism and democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence, a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory that sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals.
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a "structureless" group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved.
- Untying the Knot
Resource Type: Book
- What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
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