Any other word would get my pulse going more than democracy.” For her, democracy was a word imperial America used to sell free markets and push its agenda. Yet Taylor, a lifelong activist, says that she also always felt there was “a contradiction” inherent in democracy that puzzled her. “Not an empty, Silicon Valley-type democracy, but a real one.”Then there was her work with Occupy. Taylor also co-founded the Debt Collective, which grew out of Occupy; this buys student and medical debt on the debt markets and forgives it. The S word was a no-no in US politics for generations, one that had “this sort of dated ring”, Taylor says.

Source: The Guardian April 17, 2019 06:56 UTC