>>> cbcox at ilstu.edu 06/29/00 06:40PM >>>
"Joe R. Golowka" wrote:
> Alex LoCascio wrote:
>
>> Or the unaccountable, interminable snooze-ocracy of the
>> consensus-based
>> affinity group model.
>
>
> Or direct democracy.
It is not a quibble to point out that democracy (all varieties including
direct democracy) is a form of rule by which the whole (expressed in some sort of majority) constrains the part (the individual). Hence by opting for direct democracy you undercut anarchy. And as soon as you do so, you define debate as not authority vs no authority but as a debate over the best or most possible mode of authority.
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CB: Yes, mode of authority or the state. This is why Marxists hold that even democracy, direct democracy even, is a form of the state. When the state whithers away it will be democracy whithering away.