Durant wrote:
>
> ...
> > As Castoriadis emphatically
> > argues: representation is contradictory to democracy, because democracy
> > is persons cooperatively making their shared form of life, in
> > contrast with all the alternatives where their form of life is more
> > or less shaped (whether with or without their consent) by
> > others.
>
> Representation is not necessary, but if the representatives are
> controlled democratically in the full sense of instant recall,
[snip]
Since possession is 90% of the
law, as they say, I think I'd rather
be a representativocrat subject to
"instant recall" than to be
just one of the people
who may or may not participate in the
possible recall if it happens.
[snip]
> > Maybe we could have sdomething like post-WW II Sweden or
> > Japan?
> >
>
> I don't remember their mode of democracy being different from others.
> The mode of economy ended up in crises in both case, though the
> swedish was/is less dramatical.
What so-called "economy" hasn't ended up in crises though
some less dramatical?
And, it seems to me that power over the tools by which
one earns one's living (reproduces individual and species
life) is far more important than the power to shuffle a
little slip of paper one makes X's on once every
couple years.... The economy *is* the democracy (or
at least 2/3 +/- of it)! Or would Marx
say that the superstructure determines the
productive base?
[snip]
Oh, well, Labor Day comes toward
its end, but labor goes on too much for
some, too little for others, and
under less secure (even if no more
ennobling...) conditions for almost all than
before we made the past couple decades of
progress....
\brad mccormick
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