[lbo-talk] [Pen-l] NYT: Egyptian Liberals Embrace the Military, Brooking No Dissent

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, Bill Bartlett
>>> Earth to Charles: a military coup is not direct democracy.
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^^^^^^^
CB: When the military is carrying out the demands of millions of
civilians , it is direct democracy. Evidently , u don't know what
democracy is.

Democracy is still a _state_. The military , or standing bodies of
armed men, prisons, the repressive apparatus, is the state. When the
state is following the direction of the masses that's direct
democracy.

The state doesn't whither away until communism. Socialism still has a state.