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Spencer Beswick@spencerbeswick.bsky.social |
"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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Spencer Beswick
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"a distinctly separate and usually professional power at its summit. Republics are beyond the immediate reach of popular control; democracies are not even confronted by the issue of the displacement of power." 3/3
Murray Bookchin, "From Urbanization to Cities" www.akpress.org/fromurbaniza...
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