And so the ANC's smallness-friendly platform at the '94 elections became the RDP, which was replaced by GEAR, which was abandoned with a shrug in favour of a culture of populist big-man posturing.
The separation of "democratic principle" and "technical regulation" is, however, a worldwide problem. There is a bland failure to see that our lives are constrained not by ideals espoused in policy but by concrete, discrete laws governing technical minutiae. No cohesive understanding of right or liberty governs these, but only the covert interests of industry. Regards Dawie Coetzee ________________________________ From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wed, 16 February, 2011 13:53:35 Subject: [Biofuel] Democracy Born in Chains: South Africa's Constricted Freedom Ms Klein has a point, as usual. - K http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2011/02/democracy-born-chains Published on Monday, February 14, 2011 by Picador Democracy Born in Chains: South Africa's Constricted Freedom by Naomi Klein ------ The inspiring overthrow of Hosni Mubarak is only the first stage of the Egyptian struggle for full liberation. As earlier pro-democracy movements have learned the hard way, much can be lost in the key months and years of transition from one regime to another. In The Shock Doctrine, I investigated how, in the case of post-apartheid South Africa, key demands for economic justice were sacrificed in the name of a smooth transition. Here is that chapter. ------ <snip> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20110216/fba021e3/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
