for info, a typology at <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Democracy">http://p2pfoundation.net/Democracy</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Sy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sytaffel@riseup.net">sytaffel@riseup.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Democracy doesn't mean rule of the majority. Etymologically its meaning<br>
is the rule of the people. While common convention in representative<br>
democracies is that this means majority rules, this is only one kind of<br>
democratic system, and the one which historically was considered to be<br>
'weak' democracy as allowing people to vote for a representative once<br>
every four or five years gives the people only a small degree of power<br>
to rule themselves.<br>
<br>
This was contrasted with 'strong' or direct forms of democracy where<br>
either the people were able to either manage their affairs without the<br>
need for representatives to mediate for them, or those representatives<br>
were only temporary and were able to be recalled at any time if people<br>
were unhappy with their actions.<br>
<br>
Consequently direct democracy has largely been associated with anarchist<br>
leaning groups, such as social centres, squats and co-ops. Frequently<br>
these groups opt to make decisions by consensus rather than majority<br>
based decisions as this includes all participants in a meaningful way<br>
and allows them to voice their objections to ideas rather than placing<br>
them within an outvoted (and thus silenced) minority.<br>
<br>
<br>
On 03/03/2011 06:06, <a href="mailto:p2p-foundation-request@lists.ourproject.org">p2p-foundation-request@lists.ourproject.org</a> wrote:<br>
> From: Dante-Gabryell Monson<<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Date: Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:05 AM<br>
> Subject: definitions of ( hybrid networked ) modes of governance and<br>
> economics<br>
> To:<br>
><br>
><br>
> In the following excerpt, starting at 378 seconds ( already marked in link<br>
> ),<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBBqM-ajoGI#t=378s" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBBqM-ajoGI#t=378s</a><br>
><br>
> it states the use of polling to inform "democracy" ( or, so called,<br>
> "representative democracy" ),<br>
> from information coming from a population that can make "rational"<br>
> decisions.<br>
><br>
> I wonder how one would call direct action , transactions , and contracts<br>
> made by the people without a need for a representative, but with the<br>
> possibility for proxy voting which can be changed at any time in case one<br>
> would want others to take decisions for us instead of taking them oneself (<br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_voting" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_voting</a> �) .<br>
><br>
> How would such form of economics and governance be called, when enabled in<br>
> hybrid forms of relational dynamics ?<br>
><br>
> I guess not "direct democracy", as democracy is from the rule of the<br>
> majority.<br>
><br>
> I guess "Panocracy" ?<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Panocracy" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net/Panocracy</a><br>
><br>
> A principle underlying systems of organisation that asserts that everyone<br>
> has the right to make and act on decisions about things that affect them and<br>
> that no one else has the right to take that away from them.<br>
><br>
> or "Panarchy" ?<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panarchy" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panarchy</a><br>
><br>
> *?an inclusive, universal system of governance in which all may participate<br>
> meaningfully."*<br>
<br>
<br>
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