I am personally for radical direct democracy, nothing less, nothing more, because I view the political as trumping the economic, feel free to purge me once the revolution is there but I am interested if there are other “alternative” takes
I am personally for radical direct democracy, nothing less, nothing more, because I view the political as trumping the economic, feel free to purge me once the revolution is there but I am interested if there are other “alternative” takes
My question for you would be where does the political power to enact a radical direct democracy come from? Who would be doing this? Do you envision this as something that can be accomplished via reform and electoral politics? Or would it be a revolutionary struggle?
In our current situation the capitalist class controls all the levers of power. They are not going to give this power up voluntarily. We are either going to live in a world where a very small amount of people control the economy/politics/society (as they do now) or we are going to remake the world into something approaching a classless society. I don't see another path to any kind of foundational change.
I think that to do it for one state would be a start, on the libs still believe in democracy hypothesis, pretend to play the game where more political participation could help placate austerity and state abdication (already trialed in my country), create a movement (rather merge different movements together) and make it a “vicious circle” where there is a push that people vote to give themselves more power (again works in my country constitution so very fact specific), if once a mass movement is formed the hypothesis doesn’t work, given the fundamentally rallying appeal of more tights for everyone, we can go into more direct and extreme action, which again I will not outline online