Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Democracy on the side

When the flame of democracy went out 2000 years ago, we had to wait for the French and Americans to rekindle it. Of course, the champions of inequality have realised that if you want it to stay dead, no one can know that it has gone.
Read how inequality is incompatible with the right to choose. Ask yourself what is democracy without control over money? What is a free person without employment rights?

Consider the case of US president Lincoln, who was assasinated. This great leader, this visionary, enshrined in the minds of Americans, had the sincerity and courage to set his people free. Freed the slaves and freed the free. The greenback (paper money backed by the treasury) was an unparalleled gift. For a short time, the American people could vote and have an impact on the prime decision, the fuel of our lives, jobs, families. Then Honest Abe was shot, the central bank returned, and we spend our time arguing the last decision, how to stay afloat on the debt.

If you are having trouble with these ideas or their evidence, which, in the words of Noam Chomsky, "is all right there on the surface of history," then I ask you to do something about it. X Sama is here to help you.

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