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Spencer Beswick@spencerbeswick.bsky.social |
Conservatives love to argue that the US is a republic, not a democracy. Fine! Let's be a democracy instead! Murray Bookchin on the distinction: "A face-to-face relationship between active citizens for the purpose of arriving at a consensus is alien to republican systems of government. 1/
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Spencer Beswick
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"A democracy is participatory; a republic, representative. The first involves the exercise of power directly by the people; the second, its delegation to selected surrogates, who then reconstitute the political realm that initially existed at the base of the *koinonia* into 2/
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