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Antidemocratic Participation Revisited


Two years ago, at the end of a democratic theory seminar, I read Alexander Kirshner’s book
A Theory of Militant Democracy (2014) and decided to continue his discussion about the paradox of democracy. The paradox asks: can a democratic society, in a non-contradictory way, restrict political participation if said participation is a threat to democracy?[2] For the purposes of my essay, “antidemocrat” is taken to mean a political actor that wishes to exclude a socially salient group of participants from the demos.
Kirshner’s book is illuminating, though not the first to bring the concern to the table. Karl Loewenstein, writing in the time of Nazi Germany, coined the term “militant democracy” to argue that it is permissible to violate “fundamental principles” of democracy such as the right to participate as an electoral candidate.[3] Loewenstein argued that antidemocrats – like the Nazi party – can exploit the tolerance of democracies and thus, must be met ....

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And are strongly against his policies. and most recently, he aligned himself with some really right wing anti-arab well-known group here s that are disciples of meier kahane, a rabbi from brooklyn who was an elected official here, returned and was later assassinated in new york city. back in the 80s he was actually a member of parliament here. he was so radical, and his disciples are now allies of netanyahu s, who is copying donald trump s base-pleasing policies, also talking about the fake media, the fake news. he s been very aggressive. he s included donald trump in billboards, in his campaign ads. they could not be more closely aligned. and i think you re going to see a lot more including hints that netanyahu here this week has been pressing for the u.s. to ....

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