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As the smoke cleared, Steven Krivit <[email protected]> mounted the barricade and roared out: > Steven, > > When I was in business school we studied the matter of a top-down > management which precludes localized thinking. That is, there are some > corporations, and governments that issue orders, directives, instructions > to their staff (drones?) and they do not empower or encourage them to > think for themselves. > > There are a other organizations that recognize the fact that their people > are in the trenches - they can see the field of battle - or the > customer's situation - in front of their own eyes and the organization > empowers their staff to use their own judgement. > > Obviously the style of the MPD is the former. > > Steve In fact, the socialist model of "participatory democracy" is based on the recognition of this fundamental divide between 'top-down' non-/pseudo-democratic organization -- as practiced ("gamed" is more like it) in "our" all-too-familiar bourgeois "representative democracy" -- and the preferred "socialism from below" one, as ideally practiced by 'direct democracy' in workplace and community committees, councils ("soviets" in russian) and communes, etc. And of course, stalinism is the complete antithesis of this. As is capitalism. So people who equate capitalism directly with democracy, for instance, are either liars or fools. ;> - -- grok. - -- Build the North America-wide General Strike. TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas. TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes. ALL power to the councils and communes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoTd4cACgkQXo3EtEYbt3Ea5QCdHSUs4Em9naQl4aPN15JZ9Njr 0h8Ani0IhhZJXD/0z8+sSEKXIF+JfMSU =I8my -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
