From: | Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it> |
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Date: | Fri, 08 May 2009 08:57:48 +0200 |
Subject: | Re: [WDDM] strategy |
Dear friend of DD, let me try to insert some comments into your text below. Valach ha scritto: I read your "A Fascist Cloud on the Horizon"Dear friends of DD, I am a member of this discussion net for many years, but just as an observer, until today. Now, in connection with the steady growth of crisis of contemporary capitalistic society, including the financial crisis, the question of substantial changes of this system become vitally important. The most probable solution of the contradiction among capitalists countries and within these countries, among capitalist owners and employees, is fascism (see in more detail my text here: http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/valach/fascist-cloud.html ). II guess, the fascist cloud is not on the horizon, but on the zenith, as I read in your essay: "| In the willingness to implicitly submit oneself to the leaders on one hand and the desire to rule others on the other hand, lies the common core of fascism and communism..." It seems to me, this "willingness" is the main problem. The others, that are the different forms in which this willingness goes to express itself, to wit Fascism, Communism (and Capitalism too) are simple corollaries, ie symptoms. True that these symptoms are overt, whilst their cause - the above willingness - is hidden. This notwithstanding, if we really wanted to solve the Problem, we must care about the cause, not its effects. It seems to me, you are missing the level of family, before villages and cities.A humane and socially just future can only be reached under the circumstances of our constant and permanent effort. How to reach this goal? We can find many important experiences from our ancestors and their fight for freedom and social justice (for example see here: http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/valach/fundamentals-of-communism.html ) . Firstly, there is no possibility to create a movement, and hardly a world wide movement through the internet. The beginning has to be in your closest environment, your villages, cities and so on. We have to establish a strong local movement, i.e. grass roots strategy goes from the level of villages and cities, to the level of our own state or country. Coming back to the main Problem, the causative willingness is built inside the family, and embedded into the minds of future citizens. If the minds of villages and cities inhabitants were inclined by family education towards too much of the above willingness, no wonder if they will then shape their overfamily social structures, from villages and cities up to the state and country, in the form of a more or less hidden fascism, capitalism (where the most overt is communism and the most hidden is capitalism) that is, anything else but (Direct) Democracy. I guess, the "real power" is the power in the present time. So the question becomes,And, after that, the democratically elected representatives of these countries' movements can meet together and establish a real world wide movement. Secondly, I am afraid that solely the idea of direct democracy is not strong enough to attract the attention of the citizens. It would work only as part of complex program for the substantial, i.e. revolutionary change of capitalistic society. For this, it's necessary to connect or put the idea of DD not only on the political level but, to the most important economic level. Meaning to change the private ownership of companies to the ownership of employees. Then the idea of DD could be adopted by the world wide social movement. Private ownership gives huge power to the owners through money and their influence on the media. In fact, countries are run by the super rich elites. If you want to get the support of the majority of citizens, without which it is impossible to reach success, this movement has to be strongly democratic and humane, i.e. without any pattern of racism. Another, absolutely necessary condition is direct democracy inside the movement or political party, if you want (see in detail here: http://www.pdemokracie.ecn.cz/cs/doc/Statut-ang.doc ). Without it, every leader, after acquiring power, becomes corrupt by this power itself. Not only contemporary politics betray citizens, but the same will happen with the politics of a DD party. That is why we need strong control of their leaders from the side of citizens and from the side of the members of a DD political party as well (see again here: http://www.pdemokracie.ecn.cz/cs/doc/Statut-ang.doc ). In the end, you can see the draft of a DD political system model here: http://www.pdemokracie.ecn.cz/cs/doc/CitConst.doc which puts real power into the hand of citizens. who are they who have the power "which puts real power into the hand of citizens" ? The majority of citizens, you say. True: but what about, if their minds had been inclined from family grassroots bottom-up with too much of the above fascist willingness etc etc? Sincerely yours Milan Valach Spokesperson of The Czech movement for DD Best regards antonio |