8 years ago in Quotes
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
 9 years ago in Quotes
The way to overcome this situation is to create real political parties. To have real political parties, the people must participate and make decisions, not just come together every four years to pull a lever. That is not politics. It is the opposite of politics. If you have mass popular organizations that are functioning all the time - at local, regional, and international levels - then you have at least the basis for democracy. Such organizations existed here in the past.