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Only in a participatory democracy are we able to develop the psychological skills and the knowledge required for social action.

— Rick Turner

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A Christian society is one in which we prefer people to things, a society based on freely expressed love.

How practical is it to want a second car when the world is running out of petrol?

A real change can be brought about only by a fundamental redistribution of wealth and of power.

The problem is to work out what kind of institutions, social, political and economic, would be needed for such a society.

Only in a participatory democracy can we both cooperate freely and openly with other people and at the same time maximize our own personal range of effective choices.

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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