Lessons in Democracy is part of a family of websites, the objective of which is to promote positive social change. By way of introduction, the prerequisites for accomplishing such change include that the steps taken to bring it about must be (1) consistent with human nature, not based on an unrealistically positive appraisal; (2) voluntary; (3) grounded in education; and (4) ethical. The importance of education derives in part from the fact that enduring and widespread change, global change, will require a mass opting-out of the present social system. Only education, about a better alternative, will motivate a critical mass of the population to break free of our current oppressive structure.

Lessons in Democracy is an in-depth description of our goal, a truly democratic society, including with an analysis of the many pitfalls that exist to establishing and maintaining such a society.

Lessons in Democracy also includes a short book about the worldwide economic recession - What Really Happened: The Financial Crisis Guide.

Activism 101 gives an education about the tools of dissent, which is the essential expression of popular power by which we both throw off authoritarian rule and preserve the vitality of our democracy once we are free.

Dictator Watch advances the theory of global social change, which is grounded in the field of mathematics known as chaos theory. But, while this might sound daunting, the basic ideas and their application to human societies can be understood by anyone. Dictator Watch also works as a front line activist group, on those cases where the need for change is most pressing.

What Really Happened: The Financial Crisis Guide

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The United States House of Representatives has passed a draft bill to address the financial crisis. While movement at last on this issue is positive, the bill is deeply flawed. Regarding the fundamental causes of the crisis, the law does not consider the proper role of the capitalist system (of economics) in society, nor of how government policy makers need to be protected from it. In specific terms, the law does little to end rampant market speculation, and obscene levels of pay, or to force financial institutions to be adequately capitalized.

To understand the crisis, and the steps that the U.S. government, and other governments around the world, should be taking, please see our short guide to the subject.