As Arundhati Roy has said elsewhere (this is a repeat postiing but you seem not to have noticed it):-
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0518-03.htm
"Democracy, the modern world's holy cow, is in crisis ... every kind of outrage is being committed in the name of democracy. It has become little more than a hollow word, a pretty shell, emptied of all content or meaning," she said.
"Democracy is the Free World's whore, willing to dress up, dress down, willing to satisfy a whole range of tastes, available to be used and abused at will."
Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market means they are on sale to the highest bidder, she said.
>From: Shane Taylor <s-t-t at juno.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 19:30:25 -0500
>
>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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