18: "Alternatives to Democracy" Benjamin Studebaker

About this episode

Shaunsky and Sasha discuss a criticism of lottocracy and explore alternatives to democracy based on Benjamin Studebaker's work.

Shaunsky and Sasha tackle a criticism of lottocracy for the first time."Alternatives to Democracy" is the fourth section within "What If This Book Is Wrong?" which is the final chapter of Benjamin Studebaker's book The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut.There is no link to this text online, but email us (demarchiccommunism@proton.me) if you would like us to send you the pdf file we read from.Intro music: "District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

People in this episode

Hosts: Shaunsky, Sasha

Topics covered

• lottocracy
• democracy
• political alternatives
• American democracy
• philosophy
• criticism

Keywords

• lottocracy
• democracy
• political philosophy
• Benjamin Studebaker
• American democracy
• criticism
• podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut, What If This Book Is Wrong?

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