Posted By jim on April 4, 2010

from Democracy Now; some rights reserved.

“If it is not controversial…If it is not dangerous, if it does not ask us to consider changes that frighten the establishment, it is not about democracy.” -Paul Woodruff, First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea.

I’m leading a reading group on democracy at the Northern Virginia Ethical Society using Paul Woodruff’s book First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea.

Arundahti Roy writes about the experiment of liberal democracy in India…but is it really democracy: I am eager to read her new work.

Categories: Community & Mutual Aid, DIY Community & Mutual Aid, Utopian Economics
Tags: arundhati roy, democracy, field notes on democracy: listening to grasshoppers, first democracy: the challenge of an ancient idea, paul woodruff