From: Travas Gunnell (travasg@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 02:15:53 MST
You might be interested in the rest of _The Green
Book_, which can be found here:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8744/mylinks1.htm
along with other things Libyan. It's pretty
interesting reading; my take on it was that it seems
to be essentially an odd fusion of anarcho-syndicalism
and Islam. And I just love what he says about sports.
-Travas
--- Charlie Stross <charlie@antipope.org> wrote:
> the Daily Telegraph, Ghadaffi has just abolished
> almost the entire
> central government:
>
>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000111395221259&rtmo=Q0eazkzR&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/00/3/2/wlib02.html
>
> Interesting quote:
> >He reserves particular scorn for representative
> democracy since,
> >"the victory of a candidate with 51 per cent of the
> votes leads to a
> >dictatorial governing body, since 49 per cent of
> the electorate is ruled
> >by an instrument of governing they did not vote
> for".
>
> I dunno about you, but I for one did a double-take
> when I read that
> last paragraph -- because it's one of the most
> telling, and troubling,
> criticisms of democracy: a majoritarian tyranny is
> still a tyranny
> (as far as those not in the majority are concerned).
>
> Whether or not Ghadaffi's prescription, on the basis
> of this diagnosis,
> makes sense is an issue I'm not going to comment on.
> But I've got a
> feeling that some very interesting ideas are being
> overshadowed in the
> western media by the general reputation Libya
> acquired for sponsoring
> terrorism in the eighties.
>
>
> -- Charlie
>
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