Book of the day: They Can’t Represent Us by Marina Sitrin/Dario Azzellini

They Can’t Represent Us is a book written by writer, professor, lawyer and activist Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini. It is based on extensive interviews with movement participants in Spain, Venezuela, Argentina, across the United States, and elsewhere. It is an expansive portrait of the assemblies, direct democracy forums, and organizational forms championed by the new movements, as well as an analytical history of direct and participatory democracy from ancient Athens to Zuccotti Park. The new movements put forward the idea that liberal democracy is not democratic, nor was it ever.