the starting point of the id project is that the world at the beginning of the new millennium faces a multi-dimensional crisis economic ecological social cultural and political which is shown to be caused by the concentration of power in the hands of various elites this is interpreted to be the outcome of the establishment in the last few centuries of the system of market economy in the polanyian sense representative democracy and the related forms of hierarchical structure therefore an inclusive democracy is seen not simply as a utopia but perhaps as the only way out of the crisis based on the equal distribution of power at all levels