Re: [WDDM] strategy

[Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it>]

Dear friend of DD,

let me try to insert some comments into your text below.


Valach ha scritto:

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 ). 

I read your "A Fascist Cloud on the Horizon"

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.

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.  

It seems to me, you are missing the level of family, before villages and cities.
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.

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.

I guess, the "real power" is the power in the present time.  So the question becomes,
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