En breve
A diferencia de la democracia representativa, que a menudo es el acto sumiso de elegir el menor de los males, la democracia participativa involucra a masas de gente en la transformación directa de sus vidas y de la sociedad.
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American political scientists teach that participatory democracy is the province of the distant past, a relic of ancient Greece or New England town meetings, but Asian uprisings at the end of the twentieth century provide contemporary proof of its existence. Modern forms of participatory democracy embody humanity returning to our natural inclinations for equality and consensus. Social uprisings since 1968 involve activated democracy, not a passive and much-abused representative system of choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. They remind us that human beings remain capable of changing the planetary structures that condemn millions of people to living hell at the periphery of the world system — and involve all of us in continual wars and destruction of the planet.
— George Katsiaficas, Asia's Unknown Uprisings.