[lbo-talk] 'Democrazy'

[Shane Taylor]

Joseph Wanzala wrote:
> This concluding list summarises the arguments
> given in all the other sections. Implicitly, they form
> a program to abolish democracy. Why do that? To
> start with, because it is time for a change. The western 
> democracies have been democratic, depending on
> the definition, for 50 to 150 years, and most people
> there have no experience of non-democracy.
> Democracy should disappear, to facilitate the end of
> global inequality, famine and avoidable disease, by
> the introduction of global transfer taxes. The end of
> democracy would end the legitimisation of the nation
> state from democratic principles, and allow innovative
> types of state to be formed. It would facilitate social
> innovation, end conformist suit-and-tie societies,
> and prevent the emergence of a uniform global society.
> The construction of utopias and ideal cities (without
> the consent of the people) requires the end of democracy.
> Its abolition would also allow construction and
> implementation of projects - especially infrastructural
> projects - which are unpopular and uneconomic.

Abolishing democracy to clear the way for more "innovative" states.  If
that is your offering of a move "beyond" left and right, it's a pretty
clear example of why Chip's warnings are well grounded.

-- Shane

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