aral, 1 month ago “I don’t understand why everything is so fucked up and we seem incapable of fixing any of it!” This is because you believe you live in a democracy when you actually live under capitalism. (And it is functioning exactly as designed.) PS. Not your fault; you’ve been taught your whole life that the two are complementary when they’re diametrically-opposed. #capitalism #versus #democracy
“I don’t understand why everything is so fucked up and we seem incapable of fixing any of it!”
This is because you believe you live in a democracy when you actually live under capitalism.
(And it is functioning exactly as designed.)
PS. Not your fault; you’ve been taught your whole life that the two are complementary when they’re diametrically-opposed.
#capitalism #versus #democracy
davevolek, 1 month ago @aral Yep. Democracy & capitalism are not the same thing. You are 100% right on. Would you be interested in investigating an alternative democracy? https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=30&id=12 video/mp4
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Yep. Democracy & capitalism are not the same thing. You are 100% right on.
Would you be interested in investigating an alternative democracy?
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=30&id=12
video/mp4
aral, 1 month ago @davevolek Will take a look when I get a moment, thanks :)
@davevolek Will take a look when I get a moment, thanks :)
mapto, 1 month ago @aral I'd be very curious to hear how democracy without capitalism could be structured (putting aside for now the more interesting question of how the corresponding transition from the current state would happen). The closest to a response I can think of is the ideas of Cornelius Castoriadis, but as many other things in life, it shows that the problem is that it's us not doing enough for a change: https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase_mobile?openform&fp=epoche&id=epoche_2010_0015_0001_0001_0012
@aral I'd be very curious to hear how democracy without capitalism could be structured (putting aside for now the more interesting question of how the corresponding transition from the current state would happen).
The closest to a response I can think of is the ideas of Cornelius Castoriadis, but as many other things in life, it shows that the problem is that it's us not doing enough for a change: https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase_mobile?openform&fp=epoche&id=epoche_2010_0015_0001_0001_0012
Brendanjones, 1 month ago @mapto @aral One of the various forms of economic democracy is most likely imo. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_democracy So many variations possible, like https://mastodon.social/@jlou/112080581372175879
@mapto @aral One of the various forms of economic democracy is most likely imo. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_democracy
So many variations possible, like https://mastodon.social/@jlou/112080581372175879
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