{"article":{"id":4283,"heading":"Direct democracy","author":"Ahmed","created":"2000-10-29 05:24:18","modified":"2005-08-15 00:29:53","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:29:53","article":"

Revolution will happen slowly and hardly, but on my point of vue certainly not by voting through parlementarism and electoral aristocracy.

In a way you're right when you believe that voting for nader will change something (let's imagine that 5% of US people vote for Nader: it will put the pressure on capitalists and republicrats).

But non-electoral anarchists are right also when denouncing parlementarism. Firstly because they (and I) want to dismantle the myth of \"delegation\".

Secondly there's the question of making revolution in the activist praxis (in many aspects: authoritarian attitude, sexism etc.), this is crucial and a political, electoral party is probably not a structure for this kind of progress.

As many anarchist friends are saying: \"be realistic, revolution is not for tomorrow...it is today and the day after tomorrow\" ;-)

On the other hand a few \"riot US activists\" (I respect them anyway) believe that riot will bring a kind of spontaneous revolution. I think this way of thinking is the consequence of the ideological terror that dominated the US and the destruction of labour identities. It forced progressive forces and among them anarchist to be isolated and they survived and created through counter-culture (so they should be respected for their contribution).

If you need to believe that vote will bring change why not.

But there's many alternatives beetween parlementarist activism and dream of spontaneous uprising: strikes and



































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