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- Episode 21-๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด by Terry Bouricius-Introduction
Sasha and new co-host Norman begin reading The Trouble with Elections: Everything We Thought We Knew About Democracy is Wrong by Terry Bouricius.
Recorded July 20, 2025.The version we are reading from is at https://democracycreative.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-electionsยIntro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/1 hr 8 min - Episode 20 - Finishing Lafont's "Sticking to the Long Road of Participatory Democracy"
Shaunsky and Sasha finish discussing "Sticking to the Long Road of Participation: Replies to My Critics," an essay by Cristina Lafont in response to criticisms of her book Democracy Without Shortcuts.ย
Recorded June 1, 2025.ย ย
You can find the essay at https://krisis.eu/article/view/37053/34617.Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/1 hr 36 min - Episode 19-B (Part 2 of 3) Cristina Lafont's essay "Sticking to the Long Road of Participation: Replies to My Critics"
Continuation from 19-A.
Shaunsky and Sasha discussย "Sticking to the Long Road of Participation: Replies to My Critics," an essay by Cristina Lafont in response to criticisms of her book Democracy Without Shortcuts.ยRecorded May 4, 2025. What we were intending to call Episode 19 ran about 2 hours, so we divided it into parts A & B.ย
You can find the essay at https://krisis.eu/article/view/37053/34617.Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/52 min - 19A: "Sticking to the Long Road of Participation" (part 1) by Cristina Lafont
Shaunsky and Sasha begin reading our second engagement with a criticism of lottocracy. "Sticking to the Long Road of Participation: Replies to My Critics" is a response from Cristina Lafont to criticisms of her book Democracy Without Shortcuts.ย
Recorded May 4, 2025. The discussion of what we were intending to call "Part 1" ran about 2 hours, so we've now divided Episode 19 into parts A & B.ย
You can find the essay at https://krisis.eu/article/view/37053/34617.Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/1 hr 3 min - 18: "Alternatives to Democracy" Benjamin Studebaker
Shaunsky and Sasha tackle a criticism of lottocracy for the first time.
"Alternatives to Democracy" is the fourth section within "What If This Book Is Wrong?" which is the final chapter of Benjamin Studebaker's book The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut.There is no link to this text online, but email us ([email protected]) if you would like us to send you the pdf file we read from.Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ย
1 hr 41 min - 17. Real Democracy Will Require Revolution
Shaunsky and Sasha read a short essay by Sasha: "Real Democracy Will Require Revolution." https://tinyurl.com/352md9a3
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If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us atย [email protected].
Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social
or on twitter @demarchiccommie.ย
Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/1 hr 37 min - 16: ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐บ ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต by David Graeber, chapter 3, part 4
Shaunsky and Sasha finish reading chapter 3 of David Graeber's The Democracy Project, "The Mob Begin to Think and to Reason: The Covert History of Democracy."
https://astudygroup.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/the-democracy-project.pdf
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If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us atย [email protected].
Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social
or on twitter @demarchiccommie.ย
Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/1 hr 32 min - 15: ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐บ ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต by David Graeber, chapter 3, part 3
Red, Shaunsky, and Sasha continue reading in David Graeber's The Democracy Project, chapter 3 "The Mob Begin to Think and to Reason: The Covert History of Democracy."
https://astudygroup.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/the-democracy-project.pdf
ย
If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us atย [email protected].
Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social
or on twitter @demarchiccommie. Find Red on twitter @ComradeRed49.ย
Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/1 hr 14 min - 14: ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐บ ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต by David Graeber, Chapter 3, Part 2
Shaunsky and Sasha continue reading in David Graeber's The Democracy Project, chapter 3 "The Mob Begin to Think and to Reason: The Covert History of Democracy."
https://astudygroup.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/the-democracy-project.pdf
ย
If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us atย [email protected].
Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social
or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/58 min - 13: ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐บ ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต by David Graeber, Chapter 3, Part 1
Shaunsky, Red, and Sasha begin reading David Graeber's The Democracy Project.
https://astudygroup.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/the-democracy-project.pdf
ย
If you would like to contribute to the project, or have questions, criticisms, comments, or suggestions, contact us at [email protected].
Contact Sasha directly on Bluesky @demarchicroad.bsky.social
or on Twitter @demarchiccommie.Intro music: "District Four" by Kevin MacLeodย
Outro music: "Warpath" by Drezus
https://drezus.bandcamp.com/track/warpath-2ย
1 hr 22 min
About Demarchic Communism Podcast
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Studying the intersection of communist and democratic theory based on the hypothesis that they are interdependent and that demarchy is necessary to realize both communism and real democracy.