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Urbane Guerrilla · 11-01-2006, 08:36 PM

Communism is not the "flip side." It is a classist, ancient European style of oppression of the populace by the rulers. American democracy, as merely the latest effort at democracy, preexisted communism.

Half-democracy is more than half a dictatorship. There is no reason to object to getting or causing greater and greater democracy anywhere. The more nearly a society approaches a libertarian democracy of some description -- ours, and yours, are not direct democracies, but republics of the democratic persuasion (republics tend that way), owing generally to the scale of the endeavor: we delegate the political power that comes of the people, the electorate, to our sundry Representatives, Senators, and Members of Parliament.

11-01-2006, 08:36 PM	#52
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Communism is not the "flip side." It is a classist, ancient European style of oppression of the populace by the rulers. American democracy, as merely the latest effort at democracy, preexisted communism. Half-democracy is more than half a dictatorship. There is no reason to object to getting or causing greater and greater democracy anywhere. The more nearly a society approaches a libertarian democracy of some description -- ours, and yours, are not direct democracies, but republics of the democratic persuasion (republics tend that way), owing generally to the scale of the endeavor: we delegate the political power that comes of the people, the electorate, to our sundry Representatives, Senators, and Members of Parliament. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.