Political Memes

5401 readers

3824 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civil

Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformation

Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memes

Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotion

Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

273

The powerful few must be stopped (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28113982

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

I prefer Parenti's quote on democracy

Democracy is a wonderful invention by the people over history to protect themselves from the power of wealth. That's what democracy was in Greece, that's what democracy has been ever since. It's an invention of the people, nobody else but the people. There's no great philosopher that invented democracy, there's no great political theorist that thought about it and put it together, there's no great intellectual or writer or artist who created democracy! It was the mass of people! Anonymous, ordinary working people, working women and working men, people trying to survive, they're the ones that fought for it and they're the ones that gained whatever modicum of decency and security we might have in this inhumane capitalist system throughout history.