دانلود کتاب America’s Got Democracy

This year there are more substantial differences between the two [US] parties, mostly because the Republicans have gone feral. The essential point of this book is these differences are still not enough to merit the term democracy.
As a Marxist, I admittedly have high standards. I start from the premise that it should be possible to live in a society in which residents decide how to be policed, workers organize where they work, and soldiers vote for war and peace. I’m not going to rail at Barack Obama for not creating large-scale communes in abandoned Rust Belt factories (although ...) but we can only appreciate how piss-poor our democracy is by considering what it could be. Even if you don’t agree with this book’s socialist premise (some of which has appeared in my columns for Socialistworker.org), you will hopefully find this perspective useful.
And funny.
- from the introduction by the author