Hi Bruce,
Thanks for the email.
I do not believe that direct democracy is totalitarian
or communist.
The practice of communism has been to totally concentrate power
away from the electorate. Capitalism has done this to a lesser extent and
generally has been more subtle about it with manipulation in the media.
I conclude with my favourite marketing statement “Politicians are
the employees of the voters”
Regards
Jim Powell South Africa
From: Bruce Eggum
[bruce.eggum(at)gmail.com]
Sent: 11 May 2009 03:46 PM
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Subject: Re: [WDDM] strategy
Dear Jim Powel,
I suggest you read the article again.
Going to Direct Democracy is not totalitarian or communist.
Bruce
Bruce Eggum
Gresham Wisconsin, USA
http://www.doinggovernment.com/
Check out my Blog too
http://bruceeggum.blogster.com/
http://usinitiative.com
vote
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:40 AM, <Valach> wrote:
Dear Jim,
please, read this article: http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/valach/fundamentals-of-communism.htm
.
Sincerely
Milan Valach
Czech Repbulic
From: Jim Powell
[autoinfo(at)acenet.co.za]
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 8:02 AM
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Subject: RE: [WDDM]
strategy
Hi
All,
I
am not in complete agreement with the move from capitalism to communism.
Communism failed before capitalism. I would propose that we recognise that
there are scarce skills that are able to create organisations effectively and
run them.
We
still need to harness these skills and use them. The companies should be run in
such a way as the employees have some control over the way in which the company
is run. I believe that there are examples of this in Germany.
Microsoft
is an example of where shares in the company are part of the remuneration
package. I do not agree with the monopolistic manner in which they carry out
the business.
It
would be helpful if those sending in their emails would state the country in
which they live.
Regards
Jim
Powell, South Africa
From: Bruce Eggum
[bruce.eggum(at)gmail.com]
Sent: 11 May 2009 02:22 AM
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Subject: Re: [WDDM] strategy
Dear Milan Valach,
I read your papers and fully agree. The present financial focused system is our
destruction.
I look forward to more of your papers. The direction indicated needs serious
discussion and implementation.
Bruce Eggum, Wisconsin, USA
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:55 AM, <Valach> wrote:
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
).
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. 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.
Sincerely yours
Milan Valach
Spokesperson of The Czech movement for
DD
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