[...] Electoral fundamentalists refuse to regard elections as a means of taking part in democracy, seeing them instead as an end in themselves, as a holy doctrine with an intrinsic, inalienable value.
Occupy demonstrates the malaise more than it suggests any remedy. Its diagnosis of representative democracy was correct, but the alternative was weak. [...]
[...] He conveyed Marx's view of the process of holding elections in a sentence that would not have been out of place in New York or Madrid: 'The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in Parliam…
For the development of his alternative he took inspiration from the Paris Commune of 1871 (the source of the word 'communism')
on Lenin. did not know the etymology of communism
three leaders inveighed bitterly against the parliamentary system: Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler.
