fotopoulos describes inclusive democracy as "a new conception of democracy which using as a starting point the classical definition of it expresses democracy in terms of direct political democracy economic democracy beyond the confines of the market economy and state planning as well as democracy in the social realm and ecological democracy in short inclusive democracy is a form of social organisation which re-integrates society with economy polity and nature the concept of inclusive democracy is derived from a synthesis of two major historical traditions the classical democratic and the socialist although it also encompasses radical green feminist and liberation movements in the south"