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(en) ag amsterdam: Does Democracy Bring Freedom?
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Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:06:34 +0300
Dramatic imbalances in economic and political power have driven people into the streets.
These are structural features dating back to the origins of democracy itself; they appear
in practically every example of democratic government. Representative democracy preserved
all the bureaucratic apparatus that was originally invented to serve kings; direct
democracy tends to recreate it on a smaller scale, even outside the formal structures of
the state. Democracy is not the same as self-determination. ---- Rather than championing
democratic procedures as an end in themselves, then, let's return to the value that drew
us to democracy in the first place: an urge for freedom. If democracy is not the most
effective way to actualize this urge, what is? We need a framework that can fulfill the
promises democracy has betrayed. Can anarchists provide helpful ideas on these matters?
A CrimethInc. comrade will examine this subject together with the audience at meetings in
several towns. We will debate what it would mean to seek freedom directly rather than
through democratic rule.
This evening will also see the presentation of the Dutch translation of: "To Change
Everything".
A night with American anarchist publishing collective CrimeThinc.
Wensday 14 september at 20:00
In the MKZ, adres: Eerste Schinkelstraat 16 Amsterdam
http://www.agamsterdam.org/does-democracy-bring-freedom/
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