Observations on Brexit and Lexit in the UK EU membership referendum

andrew
Wed, 22 Jun 2016 13:27:56 +0000
Brexit, EU, Fortress Europe, Referendum, Imperialism, International, Opinion, Analysis

ANARCHISM AND DIRECT DEMOCRACY
1. Anarchists are generally hostile to decision making mechanisms that demand people put their faith in others to make decisions on their behalf without mandate or recall. We favour systems of direct democracy where the people either discuss and vote on an issue directly, or delegate other people to meet up for such discussions but these delegates are both mandated and recallable.

2. However, we insist that even a perfect democracy has no right to oppress a minority. There can be no democratic mandate for racism, sexism or homophobia.