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isn't the insistence on calling your fantasy some kind of qualified democracy ("participatory" or "direct" or some other adjective) giving in to the mythology of the bourgeois conceit of legitimate authority? if what you're proposing is really different from representative democracy in at least a few meaningful ways, then wouldn't it be more accurate and/or descriptive to call it something else entirely? something with less ideological and historical baggage than "democracy"? i think the insistence on using "democracy" is a ploy to keep semi-curious and semi-positive people from being too frightened of the idea of defusing power away from what they might consider to be legitimate institutions of authority -- like work, industrialism, mass society. if what you want is the definitive and irreversible destruction of capitalism and the state, then why hold on to terminology that is specific to those cultural contexts? this isn't a "quibble over terminology"; it's a plea for expanding your imagination