demos ['diːmɒs] noun 1 the people of a nation regarded as a political unit
2 (rare) the common people; masses [ETYMOLOGY: 19th Century: from Greek: the populace; see deme]
>From: Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] 'Democrazy'
>Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:21:06 -0400
>
>Joseph Wanzala replies:
>
>>>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
>
>
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