Oh. And the alternative to participatory democracy? I think we are either talking about "representative democracy," which strikes me as also being dominated by egomaniacs or "dictatorship," which certainly is, unless you believe in the myth of an abstract "dicatatorship of the proletariat" somehow run by pure non-egomaniac workers who do not succumb to cults of personality, something that we have never seen happen before of course, although I realize that your pals over on m-i would deny that... Barkley Rosser On Fri, 06 Nov 1998 09:44:12 -0600 Carrol Cox <cbcox at mail.ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> > He ran a fine campaign for congress during the Vietnam war although some of the
> > Peace and Freedom folk hated him for his egotistical take on politics.
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> That's one of the core defects of the various versions of "participatory
> democracy": they encourage cliques headed by the types that get voted "most popular
> student" in high school. Most such cliques have a big ego at their center.
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-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu