from yakoff and gallo

Yakoff sent:
Moderator: ...(Anarchism) It does'nt mean a society in which there is literally no government so much as a society in which the primary authority and sociable authority comes, as it were, from the bottom and not from the top down... where representative democracy, as we have here in the United States and Great Britian, would be regarded as a form of top down authority even though ultimately the voters decide.

Chomsky: Well, representative democracy, as, say, in the United States and Great Britian, would be criticized by an anarchist of this school (Anarcho-Syndicalism) on two grounds. First of all, because there is a monopoly of power centralized in the state and secondly, and critically, because representative democracy is limited to the political sphere and in no way, in any serious way, encroaches on the economic sphere. And anarchist of this tradition (Anarcho-Syndicalism) who always held that democratic control of one's productive life is at the core of any serious human liberation or, for that matter, any SIGNIFICANT DEMOCRATIC PRACTICE. That is, as long as individuals are compelled to rent on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then, there are striking elements of coercion and opression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.

Gallo sent :That's right baby