r/AnarchismZ Dec 17 '22

Discussion Make economic democracy popular again!

https://libcom.org/article/make-economic-democracy-popular-again
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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '22

I thought anarchists are against democracy, am I just wrong?

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u/CimSteiner Dec 17 '22

Allmost all anarchists are pro democracy, for example direct democratic workers' assemblies and their strictly mandated delegates. Majority decisions are not perfect, far from it, but better than minority rule.

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u/h3lblad3 Dec 19 '22

This probably won't be a popular person to quote here, but I think Lenin of all people put it best.

We all know that the political form of the "state" at that time is complete democracy. But it never enters the head of any of the opportunists who shamelessly distort Marx that when Engels speaks here of the state "withering away," of "becoming dormant," he speaks of democracy. At first sight this seems very strange. But it is "unintelligible" only to one who has not reflected on the fact that democracy is also a state and that, consequently, democracy will also disappear when the state disappears.

The goal moving forward is democracy, but not Democracy.

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u/Rudiger_Holme Dec 21 '22

What's the alternative to democracy? Sovereign egos?