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The problem with the United States is not that it has "democracy" nor that it has "majority rule." In fact it has rule by a minority (more-or-less the "1%") which is backed up by a deluded and misguided majority. That popular majority never gets to hear the views of radicals, socialists, or anarchists and so cannot really be said to make free, democratic, choices.

Meanwhile, the economic system does not even pretend to be democratic. Capitalism is run top-down, dictatorially, in all its enterprises, whether small businesses or multinational corporate monopolies. Their rationalization is that they have "freedom," not that they have "democracy."

Of course, all anarchists are against the bourgeois "representative democracy" of the existing capitalist state, and wish to overthrow it (even if it is temporarily better to live under this sort of regime than under fascist or Stalinist totalitarianism). But almost all anarchists would agree that they are for communal and industral self-management (or self-government, autogestion, etc.). This is what some of us call "direct democracy" ("participatory democracy"). Let us not quibble over terminology when we are for the same thing.

BTW does anyone have a comment on my analysis of the political situation after the elections?