Mumia Abu-Jamal -- When Democracy Equals Empire

His comparison of our own representative democracy, and its flaws, to the pure democracy of Greece, is pretty pointless. The Greek system of direct democracy was viable because it operated on a scale tens of thousands of times smaller than democracies today must function to run countires of millions of people. And while using a lotto system would destroy the power of the vote, I do beleive that the success of campaigning is too heavily dependent on capital, barring the lower class from office

this guy is great and need to be release without any condition.

This guy is great!, he really digs deep.

I hope great things for this man, he is an inspiration for humanity.

Yes, actually. those are the most successfull kind in hisotry.

To be clear America is a "Democratic Republic" which is supposed to counter the problems of mob rule. But also leaves the door open to "other issues" which we are seeing presently. Also the points he made about invasions in the name of democracy are completely true, not stupid. That is one of the main points of the video.

I get what he is trying to say but i just think the information he gives on how great Greek democracy is false he leaves out all the problems it has witch ultimately lead to the downfall of the city of Athens

He does touch on the problems, but he's saying how "original" democracy is much truer to the inherent concepts of equality then our current form.
I don think he's ignorant of the complications of Greece, i just dont think its relevant to his point.

With overpopulation and the end of the city-state , we created "representative democracy"----which is a fraud. The U.S. is murdering many non-combatants at home and abroad. Unfortunately, Mumia, nee Westley Cook, murdered Officer Daniel Faulkner, which is why he is where he is.

"Time does not heal all wounds" a line from the song: "The Ballad of Danny Faulkner" by McGettigan Turner (2000 AD )

No america is an Oligarchy

I stand corrected