Some people believe that being able to vote for public officials makes a democracy. But democracy is rule by the people. And when the people are opposed by the state that owns their land, by the corporations that own their livelihoods, or the mass media that owns their minds, there cannot be a democratic society. In the United States, Europe and most other countries, the ruling class has had all democratic outlets bought and paid for well in advance of the elections. The consequences of the ruling class's domination of society could not be more clear. Entire nations are in revolt. Millions starve to death, and millions more are on the verge of starvation because of a system that does not and cannot care for them.

Full democratization of society is needed, and the only people capable of changing the world are those who don't like it: the starving, the poor, the oppressed, the forgotten, the neglected. We must build a free society. That means we must do all of the following:

1. Oppose all corporate or state monopoly on the media. All media outlets must be expropriated and run democratically by those who expose the truth, not those who the truth exposes.

2. Reorganization of all businesses into worker-owned operations that make all decisions based on what is best for the workers and consumers, not the profit margin of those at the top.

3. The free flow of information everywhere, at all times. The people cannot rule if the people are blind.

In short, we must oppose everything we have come to accept in our society and reclaim our place in this world as people, and reject our current status as mere tools.

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Some quotes about democracy:

"It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expediency of capital punishment could be founded."
Karl Marx

"The proletarian revolution requires no terror for its aims; it hates and despises killing. It does not need these weapons because it does not combat individuals but institutions, because it does not enter the arena with naïve illusions whose disappointment it would seek to revenge."
Rosa Luxemburg

"You don't have to be black to be working like a slave."
Bulworth

"A capitalist makes money. A worker earns money."
Me

"The revolution can only free the ones fighting in it, thus if a small group of armed nuts march through your capital city, promising to give you freedom without you having to fight for it, they are telling you as much truth as George Bush in his election speeches."
xStil090

"All that believed were together, and had all things in common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need."
(Acts 2:44-45)

"Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party however numerous they may be is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of justice but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when freedom becomes a special privilege."
Rosa Luxemburg

I am half-Irish and half-Italian.