I think the approach that people like Reich take, which is this old-school institutional thinking is desperately trying to put things back into Pandora's box.

I think the approach that people like Reich take, which is this old-school institutional thinking is desperately trying to put things back into Pandora's box. Marx a long time ago gave a similar criticism concerning the socialist version of this line of argument, agreeing with the critique but pointing out: "[...]In its positive aims, however, this form of Socialism aspires either to restoring the old means of production and of exchange, and with them the old property relations, and the old society, or to cramping the modern means of production and of exchange within the framework of the old property relations that have been, and were bound to be, exploded by those means. In either case, it is both reactionary and Utopian.[...] Ultimately, when stubborn historical facts had dispersed all intoxicating effects of self-deception, this form of Socialism ended in a miserable fit of the blues" And I think these kinds of articles are the sort of liberal American analogue. Technology has networked people in a way and created structures that will wash old democratic institutions away. If you want to salvage something, salvage the consensus building and free exchange of information, not the separation of powers, rights based discourse, outside imposed regulation and so on. Maybe we should try to bring back Cybersyn or something, it seemed kind of ahead of its time