Wolfi Landstreicher - Willfull Disobedience-Selections from Volume 2; Nr.10-12

Venomous Butterfly Publications

It can be argued that democracy is the very heart of capitalism. Capitalism views people as equivalent in terms of the work they do - it reduces people to simple labor power. Democracy views people as equivalent in terms of voting, in terms of having an equal say in some machinery controlling you. Here too, Justice and morality are equivalent parts of this machinery.
So why do so many anarchists embrace democracy?
-- Because being against "authority" seems to many of them to be simply being in favor of Justice, perhaps?
-- Because they haven't rejected exchange and the way that exchange can work to make people equivalent to each other. Perhaps it is similar to what Nietzsche called the final cruelty of Christians, the need to kill God to keep the logic of religion.
Many anarchists feel the need to kill the top, the boss, of a bureaucracy in order to keep the bureaucracy itself alive.



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