David Graeber: The US imagines itself a great democracy, yet most Americans despise its politics. Which is why direct democracy inspires them.Graeber writes, "This is not the first time a movement based on fundamentally anarchist principles – direct action, direct democracy, a rejection of existing political institutions and attempt to create alternative ones – has cropped up in ...the US. The civil rights movement (at least, its more radical branches), the anti-nuclear movement, the global justice movement … all took similar directions. Never, however, has one grown so startlingly quickly."
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