Democracy as a concept isn’t a scam. Representative democracy, particularly in non proportionally representative countries, absolutely!

And most of us do absolutely live under a dictatorship of capital. But to besmirch democracy as a concept when that’s ultimately what anarchism relies upon seems counter productive.

Yeah fuck Democracy. All my homies hate democracy. We decide what will happen by shoving randomly sized sticks up our asses and seeing which one we fart out first.

Pssst… Capital. Typo at the end of the meme.

This empowerment of ordinary citizens through decentralisation and direct democracy will eliminate the alienation and apathy that are now rampant and (as always happens when people are free) unleash a flood of innovation in dealing with the social breakdown now afflicting our world. The gigantic metropolis with its hierarchical and impersonal administration, its atomised and isolated “residents,” will be transformed into a network of humanly scaled participatory communities, each with its own unique character and forms of self-government, which will be co-operatively linked through federation with other communities, from the municipal through the bio-regional to the global level.

Section I - What would an anarchist society look like?