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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Heretical Thought Ser |
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Heretical Thought Ser
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| Contents |
Cover Page -- Half Title -- Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Forward -- I. Anarchy, courage, democracy -- 1. Anarchy is the shadow and salvation of democracy. Authoritarianism is democracy's enemy. -- 2. For anarchy we need the anarchic. -- 3. Democracy is shabby. -- 4. Fear is the enemy of the free. -- 5. If people are to rule themselves, they must have courage. -- 6. Democrats take risks. -- II. Free people keep something wild in them -- 7. Rebellion is not only a right, it is a duty. -- 8. Empire is the enemy of the democratic |
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9. The democratic citizen is both sovereign and subject. -- 10. Free people keep something wild in them. -- III. Rights are born in the body -- 11. Rights are grounded in the body. -- 12. People have the right to life, to liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness. -- 13. People have the right to assemble. -- 14. People have the right to speak and to be silent. -- 15. Assembly nurtures the democratic. Assembly preserves the anarchic. -- 16. People have the right to a place in the world. People have the right to stay or to leave, to come or to go |
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17. Rights are born in us. They are above, beyond, and before the law. -- 18. Rights are inalienable. -- 19. Rights are held in common. -- 20. Rights are above, below, and beyond the law. Rights undergird the law. Rights elevate the law. -- IV. Free people rule the law -- 21. Rule law. Do not simply be ruled by it. -- 22. Justice, like democracy, goes beyond the law. -- 23. People should judge. Democracy depends upon judgment. Democracy hones judgment. -- 24. The people are wise. -- 25. Democracies depend on truth. -- 26. Truth prospers when the people rule. -- V. Democrats live with open hands |
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27. Democracies are places of wild diversity. -- 28. The democratic disposition is cosmopolitan. -- 29. How free people love their countries. -- 30. Democracy is generative. Democracy is excessive. Democrats live with open hands. -- 31. Democrats can tolerate the undemocratic. -- 32. All you need for democracy is humanity. -- 33. The strength of the poor is the strength of democracy. -- VI. Taxes -- 34. Taxes are how people pay for the work they do together. -- VII. The problem with liberalism |
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35. Undemocratic governments are unjust, but not all democracies are just. Democracy is a necessary but not sufficient condition for justice. -- 36. Liberalism is a problem. -- 37. Populism is a democratic force. -- 38. Institutions alone cannot ensure that the people rule. -- 39. How free people might choose their leaders. -- 40. The people, steering. -- 41. Without free and courageous people, there are no democratic governments. -- 42. Decentralization protects the ability of people to rule themselves. -- 43. People can always recall their representatives, servants, and officials |
| Summary |
Wild Democracy calls for a more anarchic, more courageous democracy. This is an ethic for people who know the rights they hold, and who struggle to rule themselves. This is an ethic for pirates and rebels; an ethic for those who will not be mastered. Democracy is always a risky business; full of promise and danger. The promise is freedom. The danger is fear: fear of the unknown, fear of the unruly, fear of one another, fear of anarchy. Fear leads to authoritarianism. Anarchy leads to courage, to self-reliance, self-discipline, and self-rule. Liberals and conservatives look to institutions to c |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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44. Executive energy belongs to the many as well as the one |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197644362 |
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0197644368 |
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