<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>I have been made aware that Samir Amin wrote a related interesting piece in Monthly Review about the failure of electoral politics to bring real democracy.  It is called: The Democratic Fraud and the Universalist Alternative and can be found at: 
<a href="http://monthlyreview.org/2011/10/01/the-democratic-fraud-and-the-universalist-alternative" target="_blank">http://monthlyreview.org/2011/10/01/the-democratic-fraud-and-the-universalist-alternative</a> <br><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 282</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">AS A HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST, EVERY DAY, I BELIEVE LESS IN FORMAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY.</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">
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