Its very conciseness may make it hard to follow, but this, if it is a fault, is dictated by necessity. It is presented in this way now because the truth and urgency of the views demand immediate circulation, in no matter how seemingly inadequate a form. Anarcho-technocracy is the theory of Direct Action on Things . It comprises the other political theories, which in reality, if not avowedly, all have the same end in view. In particular, it comprises and furthers democracy, our own brand of political theory.
Democracy becomes inevitably Industrial democracy.
In doing this it transforms political terms, methods, institutions. Democracy can't see this role it plays. All it can see, at its best, is full human power. It needs the insight of anarchism, a later development in political thought, which realises that no political power should be imposed on men. . . . Democracy in lifting the people to power makes the people free.