> An Observation on semantic quiz...
>
> Isn't interesting how the word "democracy" has never become an "ism".
>
> I think this fact suggests something rather profound about the *universal*
> importance of the idea of democracy.
>
> I guess all the other "isms" arose from specific economic concerns.
>
> In a democracy people should be allowed to freely enter and leave
> any economic system they choose to create.
>
> We need to foster democracies which allow *rational* economic
> experimentation. Rational means respectful of human rights.
>
> Harry Veeder.


        I believe it was Chomsky himself that said there was no such
thing as a
democratic system, but that democratic *principles* could be applied to
anything, whether it be government, business, your household, the media,
etc. I think this helps in understanding the ultimate goal of
anarchosyndicalism, in which corporations, the media, and all
institutions would be democratized.

                               --brian
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--
"If it is correct, as I believe it is, that a fundamental element of
human nature is the need for creative work or creative inquiry, for free
creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive
institutions, then of course it will follow that a decent society should
maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to
be realized. Now, a federated, decentralized system of free associations
incorporating economic as well as social institutions would be what I
refer to as anarcho-syndicalism. And it seems to me that it is the
appropriate form of social organization for an advanced technological
society, in which human beings do not have to be forced into the
position of tools, of cogs in a machine. " -- Prof. Noam Chomsky, MIT