>>But Treanor is not talking about democracy--he's talking
>>about Democracy which, under capitalism, is nothing but
>>[neo]liberal plutocracy. The alternative to that should simply
be called--democracy!
>Treanor is talking about Democracy *and* democracy, and extends his
>critique he the pre-capitalist era:-
>
>"....The issue is the composition of the demos, the decision-making
>unit in a democracy...
"demos" means the lower classes, le peuple, the common people. In no really existing political system is the *demos* the "decision-making unit." Nor can it ever be until the power of the moneyed classes and their military-bureaucratic apparatus is radically eliminated.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64