from our friends at WaPo
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It is true that direct democratic action in modern bourgeois democracies is intensely compromised by bourgeois propaganda, but this is not a condemnation of direct democratic action - it is a condemnation of bourgeois propaganda. So long as the proletariat maintains control of the media (through their party or some other mechanism) then direct democracy is the most immediate way to turn the people’s will into collective action. Thinking that the people are naturally evil is reactionary and you shouldn’t fall prey to it.