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    “avi ben sei AC publ assembly of al the cizes made al vena io einen eaueae| recor Theta | foreign powers and decided what heii | > ‘uide should be 10 what ign poy fidgei oat aie ‘questions of taxation, they Lee mahee re on Bewick ae PO.Box M140 Detroit, MI 48214 Fe coe Pot indus societies and Cea Ghariges ee ee ea Hist of a 2 -vitms inter espectiv bes end dmes tol hm, Lethe cath ‘bes follows will widh my own bad, iam able, any man who sal uber the demacracy at Athens, o who shall old any ‘lice ne futre fe th democracy hasbeen subvered shall tis In arms forte prpose of making himself despot shall ‘lp the despot to exabish himself. And if any on els hall il ‘in, Kw account the slayer o be holy as respects bh gods and ‘demons, 8 having sain an enemy of te Atbenans. And T engage, by word, by deed, and by vole, 0 sell his property and make over ‘one al ofthe proceds 10 the slayer, witoatwitioldng any- ‘hing. If any man shal perish i lying, oF in ying wo ly the ‘esp, I wl be kind both to him and to bis chien, as 10 ‘amodive and Arstogeton and thelr descendants, And Thereby ‘serve ad release all oaks which have been sworn hostile othe ‘Athenian people, ether at Athens, oa he camp (0t Samos) oF ‘Gsewbere?Letall Athenian swear this asthe regelaroath ie ‘itl before the festival ofthe Dionysia, with saerfic ad {row viens invoking pon him who Keeps i good things ia sundance, bat upon him ho beak it destction fr hima a ‘wel as fr hi family.” ‘That was the spirit of the men who created and defended the great democracy of Athens. Let all true believers in ‘democracy and equality today strengthen ourselves by study. ing what they did and how they did it Every Cook Can Govern Introduction Celebrations ofthe 2,500th anniversary ofthe creation of a democratic society in ancient Greece took place in 1991 Dighitarjes from the various Western democracies attended ceremonies in Greece. The hypocrisy of these celebrations seems obvious in light ofthe fact that modem parliamentary and congressional democracy is in many ways, a violation of the principles of direct democracy that were established in ancient Athens and that are examined here in C.L. R. James’ thought provoking essay. ‘What passes for democracy in the modem world is gener: ally held in contempt by the citizens of those very countries ‘which call themselves democracies. In this century, the lend- ing democracies, frst and foremost the United States, have been involved in two devastating world wars, the pillage of the peoples of Latin Ameria, Africa and Asia, the support of brutal dictatorships whenever it suited their imperial inter ests, and 80 on, At the same time, they have been unable 10 provide all ther citizens with the minimum levels of comfort and culture that moder technological society is clearly able to produce. ‘The human race, and the world in which we live, is in

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