083. Ancient Athenian Democracy and Plato -- Good in Theory Crossover with Clif Mark
Everyday Anarchism
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The Importance of Participation in Democracy
The idea that your participation matters cuts to me completely against the grain to what we call democracy now. It resembles something much more like what someone like Kropotkin would describe as anarchism or for that matter, throw. You know, you want kids to learn, put a little sign on your house that says, I'm teaching here. Much in the same way Socrates did. And if you try that in a so-called liberal democracy right now, you might even get arrested for using the wrong term. We know what it would be for the same thing that they got Socrates for.
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