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theadvancedapes  ·  3534 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bernie Sanders For President

    "reclaiming democracy" = increasing turnout and getting people to vote for who they care about

Step 1: reclaim representative democracy (which means the politicians represent the will of the people and not corporations)

    "distributing the organization" = greatly lowering campaign donation amounts from businesses and the rich

Well yes in a representative democracy finance and democracy are ideally separated. But by distributed organization I mean something more radical, namely the diffusion of the centralized organization into something that is more diffuse and evolvable. This would mean essentially that parties and politicians should eventually be replaced by a system based on ideas themselves and a more fluid dynamic in terms of who is actually "working for the government". In essence the eventual goal should be something like a dictatorship of the proletariat but obviously the concept needs to be radically updated from Marx's vision of that organization.