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

    • sagarmatha [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      the difficulty I guess is that I separate my personal beliefs for what would be an optimal system and my ethical belief laid out here that direct democracy should be the system going forward, the education system would probably best be agreed via both full transparency so it can be contested by referendum and via agreement with the teacher sector/unions. I didn’t mention it but media institutions would be heavily regulated with, ideally, full state or ngo ownership, and I think that having a direct mandatory impact to your own life would lead to more involvement not less. This is tailored as I see could work in my country and is also dependent on what people vote and do not, I do believe that Communards were almost radical enough in terms of political system, I do have, however, but not the point here, similarly radical views on the economy.

        • sagarmatha [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          I do need to check more soviet theory, any advice on relevant work? I guess one crucial difference with a radlib project, even in isolation, is that the aim is to create a collective whereby the collective improves the state which improves the collective, and have consensus building, which are probably necessary anyways at least in the later stages of a radical direct democracy like I am describing