Democracy isn't working. Someone think of something new, quickly.
I would make a suggestion myself, but it would probably be along the lines of "Turn everybody on with LSD" - which I genuinely think is a good idea, but someone has told me it's no basis for a political system.
Posted by joey at June 29, 2005 4:12 PMAnarchy. It's never really been tried on a large scale.
Posted by: Pearce at June 29, 2005 6:14 AMAnarchy isn't new.
Posted by: Joey at June 29, 2005 7:29 AMIt is in terms of having never been used as the basis for a nation-wide political structure.
Posted by: Pearce at June 29, 2005 8:11 AMPre-Franco Spain?
I don't know shit about it, but wasn't that an attempt to follow anarchist principles on a large scale, that was shut down by the Spanish Civil War?
Or am I talking out my narcotic?
M: that was anarchism - anarchy would be completely unstructured. The way I understand it, anarchism under Franco was kind of like socialism; anarchy would be more like a Mad Max movie.
P: are you going to the Dukes tomorrow, or should I?
Posted by: Joey at June 29, 2005 8:45 AMYou go.
Posted by: Pearce at June 29, 2005 9:00 AMIt's a democratic arrangement.
Posted by: Pearce at June 29, 2005 10:41 PMNot if I have anything to do with it.
Posted by: Joey at June 29, 2005 10:50 PM
"The problem has never been our political logic, but the way we enact it."
- Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.
Hey kids, the anarchists never got much of a look in in Spain, it was pretty much socialist, then Franco's fascists tried to take over. And the anarchists, socialists and communists all had to team up to fight him. They all had funky long streams of initials like POUM and SDUC such. And then they got pissed off with each other in Barcelona and so Franco won. That's about all I remember from Homage to Catalonia anyway.
And good thing the anarchists never had power, according to Hemingway they would shit anywhere, and that's no way to win a war.
And, Joey: Leave Pearce alone or I'll kick your arse.
Posted by: James at June 30, 2005 7:53 AMSometimes I wonder if it's right to trust my political education to you people.
Posted by: morgue at June 30, 2005 8:20 AM"The problem has never been our political logic, but the way we enact it."
- Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.
Um. So feudalism and fascism (for example) must be OK so long as they're enacted properly?
Posted by: Pearce at June 30, 2005 9:21 PMFeudalism is definitely cool. That's why in Jamesland I am king.
Posted by: James at July 1, 2005 12:26 AMThat cat James is one stone-cold pimp.
Posted by: Joey at July 1, 2005 3:44 AMPearce, you know full well Franti was referring to US democracy, not political systems in general. Filthy stirrer.