[lbo-talk] 'Democrazy'

[Joseph Wanzala]

Whatever you think of Treanor, democracy is in mortal crisis and in need of 
serious review. I don't see that mush difference between what Paul Treanor 
is saying and what Arundhati Roy has said about democracy (Yes, I have 
posted this at least three times before - but people seem to conveniently 
ignore it)

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0518-03.htm

"Roy, who won the Booker Prize for "The God of Small Things" which has sold 
more than six million copies in over 40 languages, criticized US President 
George W. Bush and other leaders for not listening to public opinion against 
the war.

"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: "boddhisatva" <boddhisatva at netzero.net>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] 'Democrazy'
>Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 02:16:10 -0700
>
>
>
>     Com. Wanzala's over-posting has been a great service to me.  Now I 
>know
>to COMPLETELY DISREGARD this Paul Treanor.  Treanor is talking about 
>nothing
>more than killing the patient to "cure" the disease.  His arguments and
>"critiques" may be thrown on the ash heap without any further 
>consideration.
>
>    If leftists don't want to do the hard work of persuading people of the
>rightness of their arguments (democracy) then they should gve up politics
>and try and make more money.  Treanor's "ideas" are anti-social and tend
>towards the criminal.
>
>    And by the way, ONLY leftists believe that throwing democracy out will
>bring the proletariat in - and they believe it against all evidence.  Ask
>the Chinese proletariat how well they are doing under a system that is
>carefully avoiding the "outrages" of democracy.
>
>
>   peace,
>
>     boddi
>
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