[liberationtech] Democracy (was: Re: Would you like to put the list under permanent moderation?

[David Stodolsky]

> On 10 Jan 2020, at 20:02, Doug Schuler <douglas at publicsphereproject.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm not persuaded by references to Athenian democracy as the last "real democracy”

That was not claimed. The point was to use the term "Democracy “ in a technically correct manner.

I cite many other instances here:

https://groups.io/g/democracy <https://groups.io/g/democracy>



> because even then women and slaves could not vote.

This is just a definition issue. 
The question of who counts as a citizen is a separate issue, when we are talking about a way to reach decisions. Arguing that the USA wasn’t a “democracy” before women got the vote doesn’t help when dealing with technical questions. 


dss



David Stodolsky, PhD                   Institute for Social Informatics
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dss at socialinformatics.org          Tel./Signal: +45 3095 4070

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