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> Your whole scheme is just Bolshevism with the terminology changed. Bolshevism excludes private property and implements the dictatorship of the proletariat, w
by delegate 10y ago
> Your whole scheme is just Bolshevism with the terminology changed.
Bolshevism excludes private property and implements the dictatorship of the proletariat, which is a different form of government.
What I propose is a system in which normal people are involved in day-to-day politics - with their votes and their money.
The representative system that most 'democracies' implement today do so because until recently there was no technical alternative to electing people to run things for everyone else, simply because everyone else didn't have the technical means to participate.
Now we have the technical means in which society can be run in a much more decentralised way, people can be consulted in real time using a 'society app' and they can 'invest' into social projects that matter for them - like schools or roads and so on.
What I'm proposing is bringing democracy into the 21st century.
- pjc50 10y agoI suspect the result would be more like allowing newspaper comment sections to run the world. People don't have the knowledge, responsibility or involvement for this. Engagement will be low, and therefore the system will be taken over by cranks. Local councils already suffer minor versions of this problem. I'm reminded of the UK's "Police and Crime commissioners", an attempt at getting democratic involvement in policing who get elected on turnouts of 15%.
- wav-part 10y agoA voter can choose to vote same as somone who he trust and judged to be knowledgable.