የኢትዮዽያውያን ዴሞክራቶች ድረ-ገፅEthiopian Democrats' Website

Mersea Kidan

These days it would be rare for one to surf Ethiopian affiliated internet resources and not find an article about neoliberalism written by a revolutionary democrat. One would be forced to wonder “what is all the fuss about Neoliberalism?” It looks some of the old tactics of the revolutionary democrats which have been relegated to old files are resurrecting. In the old days all revolutionary parties including the current ruling party and others like EPRP and AESM (Meison) were so vocal in reciting their opposition to Imperialism. News papers and party documents daily read slogans against Imperialism. True that Imperialism has its own evil nature, but, all the rhetoric against it was not truly aimed at it. It was used to create a mass movement by invoking nationalistic emotions and use the movement to attack the so called enemies of the revolution which have nothing to do with imperialism. Now the revolutionary democrats have come across a new term by which they can turn the attention of the people away from their weaknesses and towards the illusional enemy. Neoliberalism like imperialism is being used by the revolutionary democrats to attack their adversaries who have nothing to do with it.    ..................

To read the full pdf version clinck the link below

http://www.ethiopiandemocrats.com/Making%20the%20case%20for%20Liberal%20Democracy.pdf

Dear Mersea,

What a superb article you wrote. 

I am very much inspired by the articles you write. Please keep up the good job. I have not seen any other article with such a deeply thought analogy. I hope people like you come together to bring change to our beloved country.

Dear Brother,

I have read ur article. It is well written. I believe that the issue is very interesting which should be further discussed and debated.

But I have one comment - Liberal democracy and liberalism are not different creeds. Liberal democracy is the political policy of liberalism just as capitalism is liberalism's policy in economic aspect. It is a type of democracy based on individual rights in which the role of government is limited only to the protection of these rights. Liberty - the right to think,  choose and act in accordance with one's own judgment - is then the basic principle of such kind of democracy.