Nader

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Tue Jun 27 06:33:45 PDT 2000



> >Neither. Voting implies you accept parliamentary "democracy".
> >Decreasing the number of people that participate in our "democratic"
> >system will help expose it for the sham it is.

Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
> And then we can replace it with the absolute dictatorship of the
> central committee!!

Alex LoCascio:
> Or the unaccountable, interminable snooze-ocracy of the consensus-based
> affinity group model. Either way, the prospects for humanity are rather
> dim.

We already have the dictatorship of the central committee, Brad. I think you're projecting.

As for the snooze quotient of the consensus-based affinity group model, I thought the complaint was that it was all too exciting -- the affinity groupers so far having refused to come to the bourgeois appointed to oversee them (see Naomi Klein's article) and instead gone deliquently about the streets looking funny and making trouble and loud noises. Y'all should synchronize your critiques, after finding a few facts to salt them with.



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