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A political strategy for degrowth | tldr: mass parties founded on egalitarian principles and courageously advocating for anti-capitalist policies (www.resilience.org)

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"[R]epresentative democracy is a failure and elections are a circus. If we want to reform democracy, elections have to be abolished." | A political strategy for degrowth

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[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 months ago

It's hard to do worse than elections that install fascism. Representative democracy kind of hits the bottom of the scale there. And that's the fancy representative democracies with careful attention to separation of powers and all that.

And that's not to mention that every representative democracy in human history has resulted in policy that is contributing to the destruction of the Earth's capacity to sustain human life.

Compared to that, the mere potential to be a failure is hardly something to shy away from. At the very least you should look at the failure risk of versions of sordition that are actually under consideration - ones that have checks and balances - rather than the worst potential.