A political strategy for degrowth
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In all cases, a political strategy for a mass party must emerge from the mass of people that it is supposed to serve.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/32632129

“[R]epresentative democracy is a failure and elections are a circus. If we want to reform democracy, elections have to be abolished.” | A political strategy for degrowth

  • pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 days ago

    Second thought: In history of humankind, we had all sort of sizes of societies - from small groups of 8 people up to thousands and more. It turned out in our history that humans always need someone who collects, aligns and represent a group of people - a leader. There never was any community that relied on many representatives that shared roles and reponsibilities.

    That is not true, see Pirahã people for example. We have to keep in mind our historical biases, as many written records come from hierarchical societies, so egalitarian or collective models are less documented or even avoided, as that might go against their interests (E.g.: Missionaries trying to spread their religion which needs people to obey their hierarchy). We might think centralized authority seems inevitable, but it’s not the only way humans have organized themselves.

    • DrunkenPirate@feddit.org
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      16 days ago

      Sure, there are so many different cultures and even languages. You‘ll always find some tribe as proof for any edge case.

      E.g. some are very strict in raising kids, some even don’t care with fire and knives, some swap the kids wirh neighbor village, some raise kids with the whole village, some don‘t have parents.

      Does it mean that there is no consens? No, there is a very common way of raising a kid. With some cultural variances but not to those extremes I mentioned.