*** No critique beyond this point

*** Set the controls for the heart of the matter

*** The traditionalist or reactionary critique

*** Nietzsche’s critique

*** The individualist critique

*** Ignoring democracy

*** The Revolutionary Syndicalist critique: circumventing democracy

*** Anti-parliamentarianism

*** The Bolshevik critique: dictatorship versus democracy

*** The anarchist critique: dispersing power

*** Bordiga’s critique: the opposite of democracy

*** Council communism: the quest for non-violence

*** The critique of “formal” democracy

*** So Churchill was right?...

*** Westminster is not on the Acropolis

*** A question of words?

*** Exploitation and / or domination?

*** Politics as the foundation of democracy

*** Manufacturing consent... and dissent

*** From propagandist to educationist

*** “The more information and discussion there is, the better...”

**** 1. Majority rule.

**** 2. Minority rights.

**** 3. Free speech.

**** 4. Common will.

**** 5. Everybody’s all for respecting common decisions... unless or until the decision is deemed wrong.

*** Contradiction in communist theory...

*** ...and contradiction in proletarian practice

*** The democratic appeal

*** A system which is not its own cause... nor its own cure

*** And yet it holds out...

*** Communism as activity

*** Self is not enough

**** P.S. 1

**** P.S. 2 for (possible) political correctors.