When people express concern about the consequences of pandemic politics for democracy, they are thinking of a fairly familiar, and limited, repertoire of activities—voting, primaries, conventions, marching in the streets. But the counter-tradition of “inauspicious democracy” teaches us that the world of established institutions and familiar tactics, even if those tactics once belonged to protest movements past, is not the only place to look for democracy. It presses us instead to see how subordinate classes might use their leverage as “essential workers” to bring about a greater democratization of the whole.
Source : What People Power Looks Like in a Pandemic Democracy
