Re:It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?
by mindcrime on Thursday October 31, 2013 @10:30PM
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Right, this is one reason I'm not actually a big fan of government and "democracy" at all... the "tyranny of the majority". Nonetheless, within the framework of what we are working with here, I think it's important that our government be very transparent, so that at least the option of holding the government accountable exists.
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Re:It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?
by duairc on Friday November 01, 2013 @09:25AM
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Maybe you are already well-read in this department, but you might like reading some anarchist critiques of different forms of democracy:
In Defense of Anarchism by Robert Paul Wolff: http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/robert-paul-wolff-in-...
Democracy, by Monsieur Dupont: http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/monsieur-dupont-democ...
Democracy vs. Desire: Beyond the Politics of Measure, by Andy Robinson: http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andy-robinson-democra...
Re:It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?
by mindcrime on Friday November 01, 2013 @02:12PM
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I have not read any of those three, so definitely thank you for sharing. FWIW, my individualist anarchist tendencies have largely been influenced by people like Lysander Spooner and Murray Rothbard.