Re: [A-List] LePen, and le left

["Anne Williamson" <annewilliamson@xxxxxxx>]

Bob, I share your disdain for the vote in that voting only
encourages the ba$tard$....nothing so turns my stomach
during the electoral season as "Get Out the Vote" campaigns,
which is only the ruling class seeking legitimacy.  They've
been freaking out over the declining vote counts for years, as
each year fewer and fewer bother.

A book you, and many on the list, should read:

"Democracy:  The God that Failed" by Hans Hermann-Hoppe,
a genius Austrian (as in "the Austrian School")

You'll be screaming through much of it, but I believe you'll
finish the book with some new possibilities for self-govt
in mind.

You are right!  It's time to cut out the middleman.

Anne

From: Bob Enoch <bobenoch@xxxxxxx>
To: <a-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 7:14 AM
Subject: [A-List] LePen, and le left


> The hand wringing on much of the left over the results of the French
> first-round elections seems misplaced to me.
> I think the most important number is the abstentions, which, as in every
> other Western Bourgeois democracy, is rising  faster than the market.
> This should, I suggest, be a source of fierce joy for the enemies of the
> Empire.
> It reflects a momentous strategic fact: the people are no longer buying
> their "product "    in the same old way.
> The real product is the whole circus of representative democracy. The
bright
> , shiny toy held out to us by our enemy, designed by him, operated by him,
> and reserved for him in the end.
> This, to my delight, is becoming evident, even to the average North
> American, who will no longer argue with the proposition that the rich run
> the country, and the media lies.
> We are experiencing the wearing-out of a concept, a bourgeois concept of
> governance.
> The very last thing we should be doing now is trying to herd the masses
back
> into the shell-game run by the owners of the earth to their own benefit.
> We ought to be questioning the whole idea of  citizens delegating their
> power, and their responsibility for the future, to the pitiful, corrupt,
and
> hopelessly compromised politicians, of every party , in every 'democracy'.
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> Transcending the bourgeois order will mean transcending the notion that
> human beings can safely consign their freedom to anyone
>     Our challenge will be to develop the tools of self-government, the
> post-bourgeois order of direct democracy.
> This, which has been their greatest strength, is now becoming the great
> weakness of the Empire. Politics is seen as pointless, and fundamentally
> dishonest.
> We have several choices....if we run in their elections, to educate,
perhaps
> to ameliorate,
>  what we are really doing is reinforcing the validity  of their system.
> Or we can say"...this idea of delegating our power to a useless and
> degrading system is not working. We the people intend to cut out the
> middle-man, and govern ourselves.It's time."
> With a program built around one human, one vote instead of one dollar one
> vote, and a vision of a self-governing future, we will trump their claim
to
> represent democracy.
> Our demand must be for effective political control by the people, power
> removed from the corrupt system, and put in the hands of the citizens who
> pay for it all.
> If we attack them on this flank we can break their best line of defense.
We
> would have many allies , in such a challenge to their failed model.....Our
> people know their system is bogus.Let's not offer to fix it.
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