I had the strangest urge to listen to Rage Against The Machine last night.

LOVE the banned books bracelet! I'm going to have to get one.

I think the biggest way in which I'm "inciting revolution" is by constantly challenging people's assumptions and stereotypes wrt sex work, sex workers, and sex workers' rights. Believe me, this is damn near a full-time job, as the ignorance runs rampant and unabashed. Unless there's a real impediment to me doing so, I call out bullshit on this issue whenever I see/hear it, no matter who its from. Friends, acquaintances, superiors, family members, allies - anyone. Somehow I am brazen and steadfast on calling out BS on this issue in a way that I'm not yet (but aspire to be) on others.

Tiny revolutions, on a one-on-one level. I can do those.

This site is called "Blog for Democracy". Now, call me old-fashioned, but I associate democracy with electoral politics. Electoral politics are not revolutionary, and will not bring about a revolution, except perhaps in reaction to electoral politics. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm all for a revolution. I advocate counter-economics and dual power institutions to further it. I just don't think the answer will be found in the ballot box.
Maybe the word you're looking for is reform. Reform, to a degree, may be accomplished with the vote. But that's the question: do you want reform, or do you want a revolution?

Oh, holy horseshit. I have a feeling this Lemuria person came over here via me (who I believe he found via Ren, as that's where I saw a comment from him earlier today). I feel like I should apologize, for some reason.

But look, y'all, now he's here to Tell Us How It Is! Boy oh boy, I can't wait.

:P

Well, apparently "some" of the commentors didn't grown up on the Beatles music.. duh. the title is from a pretty famous tune.

And the definition was provided so that no one's undie got in a bunch over a pretty simple concept.

I'm all about democracy too but frankly it aint working exactly all that well for us, this admistration wets itself every time they shread another bit of the constitution so spare me the lectures, and the word reform is bullshit nicey nice like pablum, fuck that we need some radical shit to be happening come Jan 09.

Johnny Lemuria:

Perhaps you're unaware of the history of democracy? The Athenian democratic city-state (commonly recognised as the birthplace of democracy) did not practice elective democracy of the type you apparently associate with the term, but instead had a participatory democracy that literally gave everyone a voice, with legal decisions being made by people selected by lot.

Obviously, such a system would be unwieldy for a nation the size of the USA (or even for entities of the size of an individual State), but participatory democracy is certainly possible at the local level and can form the basis of a more representative elective democracy at national levels.

As to the question posed in the OP, I seek to incite revolution by asking questions, the awkwarder the better, of those who make decisions on behalf of others. I try to present to the world the perception I have of every individual as being of worth, in a world that still assigns value based on moral codes.