by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jun 16, 2016 | bookchin, confederalism, platform
Decentralism and self-sustainability must involve a much broader principle of social organization than mere localism. Together with decentralization, approximations to self-sufficiency, humanly scaled communities, ecotechnologies, and the like, there is a compelling...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jun 16, 2016 | bookchin, confederalism, platform
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking (as witness the recent tendency of radicals to espouse “market socialism” rather than deal with the failings of the market economy as well as state...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jun 16, 2016 | bookchin, confederalism, platform
Murray Bookchin Few arguments have been used more effectively to challenge the case for face-to-face participatory democracy than the claim that we live in a “complex society.” Modern population centers, we are told, are too large and too concentrated to allow for...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jun 15, 2016 | dao, merkle
In a DAO Democracy, how do we propose a bill, and how does it get adopted? Initially, anyone can propose a bill. It can be submitted at any time. If the prediction market says it has a positive impact on the collective welfare, it is adopted. If not, it is not. If the...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jun 15, 2016 | dao, merkle
If we grant that the final result is desirable, how might it be achieved? What are the paths from the world as it exists today to this future, better world where sound governance is the rule and not the exception? An existing organization might already be taking an...
