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Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it> |
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Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:42:23 +0100 |
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re: wanted our little political party to act as an assembly |
At 10:52 +0000 8-01-2007, Richard Moore wrote:
Antonio Rossin wrote:
I wanted our little political party to act as an assembly,
with all
the supporting village citizens to share-in and discuss
proposal.
But no village citizen wanted to attend the assemblies,
mostly
because -- let's suppose -- they feared from being seen
and
attacked by other political authorities.
Hi Antonio,
Thank you for sharing your story. I think
sharing our various stories would be a very good idea. This is how
people reach consensus in dialog. When they get past debating
positions, and get down to sharing their stories, then they can begin
to work together to create a shared position that takes everyone's
insights into account.
I think your assembly initiative is
inspiring, and very much along the lines of my own model.
Actually, a war started with the traditional political
parties.
Their leaders attacked us, by charging us with
incompetence,
lack of social responsibility, wranglingness,
undemocratic
riots-like behaviour etc.,
This is a very good sign! When the
political establishment attacks you, that means you're pursuing a path
to real democracy. If they coddle you, that means they think they can
co-opt you.
-- but in the meantime all the policies
we wanted to be implemented in favour of our distant
village
have been implemented. Therefore, our political
initiative has
been actually successful.
...All they wanted to obtain, it was
some better representative
to decide for them. All I wanted to obtain, it was
themselves
to be able to decide awarely and responsibly by
themselves.
You were successful in getting your
proposals implemented, but you failed to create the democratic
infrastructure you hoped for in your village. You achieved a standard
victory in the context of political activism within the current
political system. If you want to succeed in creating your village
assembly -- a more radical goal -- then some of the suggestions in my
Framework document might be useful to you.
best wishes,
richard
Richard,
thanks for your suggestions.
Unfortunately, what I'm lacking of, it is the bricks to create
the
social building with -- rather than the social model.
Please notice, the U.K. is no repeatable model of
democracy,
as its inhabitants have been living in it --they have embodied
it--
since eight centuries ago. I've just realized, the English
cannot
understand the democracy degree of the inhabitants of
countries
where formal democracy is up from less than eight
decades...
The real problem, here, is not how to organize the
democratic
assembly. It is about how to make the people attend into
it.
Best regards,
antonio
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