No states are democracies.
States are the most violent, destructive, anti-democratic structures ever produced by humankind.
They are weapons of class rule and the ultimate expression of domination.
The idea that there could ever be a “democratic state” is oxymoronic.
And just so we’re clear:
The U.S. is also an apartheid state, so for anyone to imply that the U.S. or any other nation-states of the “West” are somehow bastions of democracy in contrast to what we’re seeing with the State of Israel is to hold on to a “dream” built on nightmares.
Until we realize the differences between representative democracy and direct democracy, we will be reproducing the social relations that made this mess.
And until we realize the differences between justice and freedom, we will continue to view colonial structures as “solutions.”
Please read “Democratic Confederalism” by Abdullah Öcalan (2011) for an intro to why states can’t be democracies:
freeocalan.org/wp-content/upl…
It’s a short piece written by a former statist, and it also maps out a clear organizational and political alternative for all of us.
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