One thing that anarchists get told a lot by people who seem to think it’s the first time anyone’s thought to say it to them is: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
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Why I Don’t Vote: Part 1
I first explained my reasons for not voting in 2005, in an article about anarchism for Auckland University’s student magazine Craccum. Three years later, after the election of John Key’s National government, a few friends took me aside…
Continue readingOpportunity and Outcome
The problem is that, in our society, even with formal equality of opportunity, you can predict with some accuracy someone’s outcome by knowing morally arbitrary facts about them. If there really were equality of opportunity in New Zealand, outcomes may not be equal, but they would also not be predictable…
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