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Albert Einstein - Why Socialism?
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That's the crux of it I think. In the past, socialist experiments failed to keep the bureaucracy in check and I'm not sure there's still a good answer for that.
that's why i want a VERY bottom-up approach, have the fundamental unit of organization be neighbourhood councils or somesuch, basically just a pseudo-formal monthly meeting where people talk about stuff.
The thing about us humans is that we're actually really really good at small-scale decisionmaking, it's when it gets to large scales that we need bureaucracy.
So if we make as many decisions as possible on a small, local scale; and at the same time use that to make regular representative politics more grounded in face-to-face personal relations (have each neighbourhood send a representative to the next up level of politics): then we can eliminate a ton of bureaucracy and make what remains much more transparent and understandable to the average person.
I see absolutely no reason why we can't just have another level of governance under the municipal level (or whatever the local equivalent is), we already have things like homeowner's associations and bostadsrättsföreningar, just make that a universal thing and let them handle basic local matters.
only problem with this is if a group gets into control that essentially wants to extract and skate. Or manipulating things into little fiefdoms. I sorta agree as much as possible should be decided at the local level. carry guns and sale of alcohol come to mind but there has to be national level rights and regulation. Like owning a gun or alcohol in your home or not dumping poisons into waterways.
extract from whom? Themselves?
I would hope it's obvious i'm not talking about giving neighbourhoods absolute control over themselves, i'm explicitly only talking about clearly local matters like "what do we want our streets to look like" or "we have a neglected property, should we come together and buy it out so we can turn it into a lovely park instead?".
I'm also specifically talking about not having the same governance structure as existing politics, instead treating it more like associations where everyone can attend the big meetings and directly vote on things.
yeah extracting and moving on to become a local member of another place. people move and think of like carpet baggers who really live somewhere else but meet the requirments to vote in another place.