Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:30:07 +0200
Subject: Re: PKF: Slide time


At 11:10 -0400 06-07-1998, BillR54619-AT-aol.com wrote:
...
>Yes, and that helps prove the wisdom of representative democracy over pure
>democracy. Athenian citizens were more or less trapped in civil society - they
>could neither escape their civic responsibilities nor simply opt out of
>exercising their political rights. This is the civic culture that Marx
>attempted to resurrect: one in which political participation was so woven into
>the texture of civil society that it was obligatory.
>
>I would thing that libertarians like Hayek and Feyerabend would understand how
>very oppressive such a regime would be. Indeed, Feyerabend lived under such a
>regime as a youth. No "static idiosyncrasy" allowed there...
>
>Bill R.


Could you please elaborate a bit on this last paragraph, because i  don't
see how pure democracy is linked to a marxist view on democracy is linked
with the eastern communist regimes' view on democracy. Aren't these three
very distinctatively different ?

Erik

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