ITEM OVERVIEW
In this new essay, Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy in the world today. She points to the need for social movements to contest the occupation of Iraq and decries the reduction of "democracy" to elect clones that disallow meaningful alternatives. In this sweeping critique, Roy warns of a co-opting of the public that transforms protest into spectacle, dissent into mere expression, and public power into privately funded bureaucracies. She argues that public power, if it is to exist, must stand by an old course in the face of new and constant threats from State, media, and bureaucracy. If democracy is to be more than a pretense for plunder, justice must be its twin.
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