Microdose - Sortition (Exclusive)
Added 2021-04-23 12:01:01 +0000 UTCVictor boldly lays out his plan to fix electoral democracy using an ancient Athenian political process.
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So how would sortition deal with people who can influence the on-the-surface random vote? What stops the people with access to this system from corrupting it? What stops the economically powerful from lobbying the random winners of the sortition? How will you transition from what we have now to sortition, considering it's not in the interest of career politicians and capitalists both to implement it? And most pertinently, how is it going to actually change the material socioeconomic conditions of the people? How will you achieve worker ownership of the means of production, ie, socialism with this system? How does it stop the effect of ideology, stop people still supporting an ultimately capitalistic status quo? As one of the anarchos, my take is the need to educate people on how fucked the system is and the need to replace it wholesale. It's funny libs insinuate that anarchists aren't 'serious' when there's nothing more laughable than thinking you can reform the system by working through it. It hasn't worked before, and it's never going to work. The system has shown it can coopt anything time and again, especially polticians who go into the system with the best of intentions but then are left burnt out and cynical at best. Again, Victor is talking out of his ass about a political philosophy he knows next to nothing about, and I really hope that in the next anarchism episide you get somebody on who can educate you on what it is, how it works and why it's a great alternative to the status quo because it challenges power structures in a more direct way than arguably any other. You guys like to bring on guests to talk about specific topics you're not experts in, so why stop now?
anacidcommie
2021-07-04 15:41:43 +0000 UTCI have to say, i lean a lot more in the Marxian direction than the liberal direction, but I agree with Victor a lot in this episode. I think Party electoral Democracy is very problematic. I would recommend looking into Cuba and Vietnam’s election systems. They are not perfect and too centralized, but they are not “undemocratic.” In some ways, citizens have more power in influencing policy in these countries than Canadian or American citizens do
1DimeMan
2021-06-10 17:09:13 +0000 UTC
