that this time period, 2018, is the most anti-democratic
in over 200 years, cannot be denied…
we have such anti-democratic aspects as representative democracy,
which today is corrupted by money…we have large corporations that
are anti-democratic that have bought and sold democracy for their
own purposes…we have anti-democratic actions such as
trying to limit voting by minorities and students by trying to clear
voting rolls of people… democracy demands that anyone who is eligible
should be able to vote and that to my mind, means that anyone convicted
of a crime should be able to vote…voting should be extended to anyone
over 18. period…
to deny this is to be anti-democratic…for the history of
the last 500 years has been one of increasing rights and opportunities
from the few to some to many to all… that has been the history of the
political…and so any attempt to reduce the rights and privileges of
people regardless of reason is by its very attempt against the history of
the last 500 years, is anti-democratic…
for the corporation to become the dominant master of the economic and
the political is anti-democratic… and any support of the business world
is anti-democratic… for the business world engages in nihilism by
negating humans and their values in the pursuit of profits/money…
this pursuit of profits/money is anti-democratic because it is done for
the sole sake of making people wealthy, not the workers or the stockholders
but those who work in the corporation…those who can make millions…
that is by its very actions, anti-democratic… wealth must be distributed
equally and to all, not just to those who happened to be in charge…
for justice is just that, equal treatment of everyone regardless of
position or status, in the corporation or within the society at large…
democracy demands equal treatment, equal justice, equal response regardless
of position or status or wealth…
democracy is about justice and justice denied is anti-democratic…
equal treatment for all is what democracy and justice is all about…
equality demands equality both politically AND economically…
any attempt to treat people differently economically is anti-democratic…
justice=equality and for democracy to exist, it must exist equally, politically
and economically…
if we don’t fight for economical freedom from tyranny, we aren’t fighting
for democracy… we are engaging in being anti-democratic…
democracy is the act of applying freedom and justice for all regardless
of status and position and wealth… democracy is a all or nothing type
of proposition… if it isn’t being applied to all, it isn’t democracy and
it isn’t justice and it isn’t equality…
Kropotkin