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To: Thomas M. who wrote (2890)	5/16/2003 5:33:31 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) of 6945

Footnote re: American democracy today constitutes the advanced model of what I have called "low intensity democracy". Its functioning is based on a total separation between the management of political life, through the practice of electoral democracy, and the management of economic life, which is governed by the laws of capital accumulation. Moreover, this separation is not subject to any form of radical challenge; it is part of what may be termed the general consensus. Yet it is this separation that effectively destroys the entire creative potential of political democracy. It castrates the representative institutions (parliaments and so forth), which are rendered impotent by their submission to the "market" and its dictates. In this sense, the choice between voting for the Democrats or the Republicans is ultimately futile, because what determines the American people's future is not the outcome of their electoral choices, but the vagaries of the financial and other markets. Definition of Démocrature (), that is, Pseudo-democracy or Totalitarianism with a Human Face: antidemocrature.org () Merging of Démocratie and Dictature.

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