Hazel Henderson requested my opinion on Bitcoin:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>Dear Hazel,<br><br>here are my comments:<br><br><br>The great achievement of Bitcoin is that we have the very first "socially sovereign" digital currency, independent of government and corporation, that is workable, technically "peer to peer", and that it creates the enthusiasm of the hacker community, which almost certainly means it will be adapted and used later by more people. So, in this way, this is a tipping point. However, the Bitcoin design also has serious flaws. First of all, the way it is mined privileges the technical community itself as it can have access to networks of botnets to generate coins, in a way most people can't. Secondly it is a 'scarcity' based currency, subject to hoarding and wealth accumulation (only 21m bitcoins will be created, insuring a constant growth in value), that does not really change what is 'wrong' with the current currency system. As many so-called 'peer to peer' technologies (such as crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, etc..) it may increase wider participation and 'distribution' but without necessarily changing the dysfunctional neoliberal functioning of the market. There are also environmental concerns regarding the way Bitcoints are created through sometimes very long 'processing time'. Finally, it seems the current team behind Bitcoin is very libertarian in outlook and is supremely interested in evading taxation by the state, which depending on your own views, may be seen as politically and socially problematical. Nevertheless, what it really shows is that socially sovereign currencies are viable, and could be created as a tool of the countereconomy, though this would require a different ruleset for its functioning. so that true 'social' peer to peer values can be integrated in the design of future 'post-Bitcoin' currencies.<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Hazel Henderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hazel.henderson@ethicalmarkets.com" target="_blank">hazel.henderson@ethicalmarkets.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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the awakening of European peoples</a><u></u><u></u></span></h3>
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<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">�First they went for the Irish, and we did
nothing; then they went for the Greeks, and we did nothing; then they went
for the Spanish, and we did nothing; then they went for the Portuguese, and
we did nothing; then they went for the Belgians and we did nothing � this is
how Europe was destroyed and invaded, after the enemies of the people
captured the EU and the European state forms.�<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">- history book, 2025<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><b><span>No,
the above scenario is not going to pass, and the Greeks are fighting for all
of us!</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">Excerpted from a very important editorial by <b><span>Jerome Roose</span></b>
in ROARmag:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">(full article with links <a href="http://roarmag.org/2011/06/strike-protest-austerity-athens-greece/" target="_blank">here</a>)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">�While the world holds its breath, some smart
people are finally starting to realize that this is not just a Greek crisis.
Even the Wall Street Journal now seems to recognize what we have been
repeating endlessly on ROAR, namely that <b><span>this is not a fiscal crisis in Greece, but a
financial crisis in the European banking sector</span></b>:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">What we have come to call the Greek crisis is,
first, an international banking crisis. Like Lehman Brothers, Greece is
definitely not too big to fail. It is too interconnected to fail, too
interconnected to the international banking system � What we are calling the
Greek crisis is also a crisis of structural economic dysfunction.<u></u><u></u></p>
</blockquote>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">Similarly, in an editorial yesterday, The
Guardian wrote that:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">Discussions of the Greek debacle commonly
assume that it�s a disaster made in Greece that now requires the rest of
Europe to step in and sort it out. Wrong: this is a crisis of the eurozone,
in which Athens is not a leading actor but merely a stage set.<u></u><u></u></p>
</blockquote>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">Only dimly aware of the structural problems in
the eurozone and the looming insolvency of some of Europe�s largest banks, EU
leaders met up with some of the continent�s richest and most powerful bankers
last night. In the luxurious comfort of a Roman palace, they debated how the
private sector could contribute to a �real� solution for the crisis.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">One of the options put on the table by the
French was to roll over some debt, buying Greece more time to get out of this
mess. But while the idea sounds appealing in theory, even the Financial Times
has recognized that �you�d have to be dropping acid to think that [this
approach] is even going to do its job of buying time for the next few years.�<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">As the German Green Joshka Fischer pointed out
in an op-ed yesterday, this leaves us with only one realistic policy option:
to prepare for a controlled default. But since Europe�s leaders seem
unwilling and/or incapable of even considering this as a legitimate policy option,
the people are going to have to drive this option home themselves.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">Unfortunately for Greece and for Europe, the
only way to demand a sane solution to this overwhelming crisis right now is
through a full-blown revolt against the Greek political establishment and the
foreign powers to which it has been so beholden. From Syntagma Square, we are
hearing nothing less than a cry for revolution.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">As Costas Douzinas just put it in The Guardian:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">Syntagma has become Tahrir Square in slow
motion. It is a peaceful, democratic revolt that was easier to start because
the fear of brutal repression is smaller, but will be harder to complete as
it faces the enormous might of the European Union and global finance capital.<u></u><u></u></p>
</blockquote>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">Whatever the outcome, in the next 48 hours, the
future of Greece, Europe and the world hangs in the balance.�<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><b><span>Kevin
Carson</span></b>�s take on <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Bitcoin" target="_blank">Bitcoin</a>,
as reproduced from <a href="http://thebitcoinsun.com/post/2011/06/09/Bitcoin,-the-Darknet-Economy,-and-the-Low-Over-Head-Revolution" target="_blank">The
Bitcoin Sun</a> :<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i><span>�Neal
Stephenson�s �The <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Diamond_Age" target="_blank">Diamond Age</a>�
was set some years after encrypted currencies and e-commerce removed most
economic transactions into darknets beyond the government�s capability of
monitoring and regulating, and thus caused tax bases around the world to
implode. This was followed, in short order, by the collapse of most
nation-states. In the ensuing Interregnum, the defunct nation-states were
replaced by city-states and by networked global civil societies called
�phyles.� The major phyles leased enclaves in most major city-states around
the world, much as the Venetian merchant guilds leased �Venetian quarters� in
the major port cities of the Mediterranean.<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>Membership in the <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles" target="_blank">phyles</a> was voluntary, and the
provision of the kinds of public services and social safety nets formerly
associated with states was generally tied to voluntary membership
subscriptions of some sort. This is, incidentally, the model of
service-provision in some unions like the Screen Actors� Guild. Unemployment
benefits and health insurance are covered by a sliding scale premium, paid as
a percentage of income when a member is working.</i><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>This has been promoted as a real-world model
for darknet economies and resilient communities, in the impending age of
hollow states, by such thinkers as Daniel de Ugarte and John Robb.<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>So you can imagine my reaction to Bitcoin,
the �Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.�<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>Jason Calacanis and his colleagues at LAUNCH
describe it as �The Most Dangerous Project We�ve Ever Seen� (May 15, 2011).
Not only is it �the most dangerous open-source project ever created,� but
�possibly the most dangerous technological project since the Internet
itself.� It �could topple governments, destabilize economies and create
uncontrollable global bazaars for contraband.�<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>The beauty of it is there�s no central
server network to shut down. Just as with file-sharing, Bitcoin is traded
from one desktop or mobile device to another via public key encryption. So,
short of catching and prosecuting end-users with harsh punishments, there�s
no way to stop it. And we all know how well that�s worked out for the
proprietary content companies.<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>There are currently 6 million bitcoins, with
a total value of around $40 million. Bitcoins are generated by a complicated
algorithm, with the total number to top out at 21 million. After that,
increases in exchange of goods and services will be offset by the
appreciation of bitcoins in value and the deflation of bitcoin-denominated
prices.<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>This fixed upper limit and the requirement
for price deflation thereafter is one ground on which Bitcoin has been
criticized. Another is that, since it�s not denominated in a familiar unit of
measure like dollars, it�s confusing as an instrument of exchange for the
average person.<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><b><i><span>As
an alternative currency geek, I�d add that you can only engage in bitcoin-denominated
exchange if you�ve already obtained bitcoins from previous transactions. This
is definitely a downside, compared with the kinds of �mutual credit clearing
networks� proposed by Tom Greco. Greco�s mutual credit isn�t a store of value
from past transactions � just a measure of value for denominating exchanges
of present or future goods and services. The backing comes entirely from the
goods and services themselves. Even if neither party to an exchange has any
credit, one party can incur a debit to her account by purchasing a good or
service from another, and then remove the debit by selling a good or service
of her own. The floating bank balance works exactly like a checking account,
except the system permits limited negative balances for limited periods of
time. Like the many local barter networks that flourished during the
Depression, it�s a system for facilitating exchange even when there�s �no
money.�</span></i></b><i><u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>Despite my reservations, I consider Bitcoin
to be grounds for enormous excitement. Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge
calls it �the Napster of Banking� (May 11, 2011).<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>As Falkvinge argued, it�s usually not the
most feature-rich version of a new technology that achieves the critical mass
needed for popular acceptance. Rather, it�s the most user-friendly. ��It
takes about ten years from conception of a technology, or an application of
technology, until somebody hits the magic recipe in how to make that
technology easy enough to use that it catches on. And when it does, boy, does
it catch on.�<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>Technologies for sharing digitized music had
been around for ten years when Shawn Fanning launched Napster. Video sharing
had been possible for geeks for a decade when YouTube came along. Falkvinge
thinks Bitcoin will do the same thing for encrypted e-currency. Bitcoin will
do to banking what BitTorrent is doing to the music industry.<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>Here�s how Falkvinge describes the
ramifications:<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>�The governments of the world are on the
brink of losing the ability to look into the economy of their citizens. They
stand to lose the ability to seize assets, they stand to lose the ability to
collect debts. No application of force in the world is going to help:
everything is encrypted, and destroying a computer with any amount of police
firepower will accomplish zilch.<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>All the world�s weapons in all the world�s
police hands are useless against the public�s ability to keep their
cryptographic economy to themselves�.<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>�.The decentralized, uncontrollable economy
where one lifetime employment is no longer central to every human being is
something I�ve called the swarm economy, and I predict it will redefine
society to an immensely larger extent than the ability to get rap music for
free.�"<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>This is vitally important to a central theme
in my work: the emergence of non-state spaces within which the low-overhead
informal and household economy can function, outside the state�s ability to
create entry barriers, impose artificial capitalization and overhead costs on
low-overhead producers, and collect rent on artificial scarcity rents. It�s
the enforcement of their iniquitous �laws� that prolongs the corporate
dinosaurs� feeble grip on life, and enables the usurers, landlords and
proprietary content owners to collect tribute from us.<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>There are all sorts of possibilities for the
alt economy, with a major part of economic activity taking place via an
encrypted e-currency.<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>Until now, patents have been enforceable
largely as a result of the low transaction costs involved when a handful of
oligopoly producers in a given industry (who�ve often exchanged or pooled the
patents) market a limited number of models of goods through mass-distribution
retail chains. What happens when a garage micromanufacturer produces
knockoffs of patented mass-production goods � much like the Shanzhai job
shops today running knockoffs on the third shift, but with only 10k worth of
homebrew CNC machinery that can be bought for three or four months� factory
wages � and there�s no verifiable record of the purchases?<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>What happens when the unemployed and
underemployed start taking advantage of the technical possibilities for
low-overhead household microenterprise, in defiance of zoning and licensing
and bogus �safety� and �health� standards whose real purpose is to impose
artificially high capitalization and overhead costs and make it impossible to
stay in business without a sufficient revenue stream to amortize them? Say
hello to household micro-bakeries using ordinary kitchen ovens, home-based
cab services using the family car, household daycare and beauty salons, raw
milk and meat from animals without RFID chips, etc. � all bartering with each
other and with those above-mentioned garage manufacturers in an encrypted
darknet economy. And all while the state, aka the executive committee of the
ruling class, blindly gropes in the dark to prevent it.<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>The biggest effect of file-sharing was to
destroy all the artificial scarcity rents of the content owners and cause an
entire sector of the economy to implode to marginal reproduction cost. As
Chris Anderson said, atoms also want to be free � they�re just not as pushy
about it.<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><i>Bitcoin�s importance can�t be exaggerated. <b><span>Encrypted currency has been
at the Altair stage of development. If Bitcoin isn�t actually the Apple II �
and it may not be � we�re very close to it. If Bitcoin isn�t the Messiah of
the darknet economy, at the very least it�s John the Baptist preaching its
immanent arrival</span></b>.�</i><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><b><span>Jon
Wilson</span></b> explains the relational bias of Blue Labour and its
conception of the state, which is quite related to our own conception of the
Partner State.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/jon-wilson/blue-labour-realism" target="_blank">Excerpted</a>
from a Open Democracy debate:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">�The problem is that left-liberal politics
imagines abstract values rather than strong relationships bind us to act
together for the common good. The purpose of Blue Labour is to remind us how
weird that is. Practically and theoretically, it points out what it might be
like to live a Labour politics based on reciprocity and solidarity rather
than abstract norms that have no real meaning in people�s lives.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">For me, Blue Labour combines a challenge to
capitalism with a belief that the state doesn�t have all the answers. That�s
an attractive political philosophy for an activist and academic who�s never
sure whether he�s on the left or right of the Labour party. But it isn�t just
about political thought. It�s also about renewing real relationships that
stretch across the Labour party and beyond. As a participant in discussion
which led to the Soundings e-book �The Labour Tradition and the Politics of
Paradox� and since, its been an honour to be part of some of the new
connections and conversations that have the greatest chance now of renewing
the Labour party. As a historian, my role in the Blue Labour enterprise has
been to remind the politicians and political theorists of something which
Saul Alinsky and Michel Foucault would have agreed: power has always only
ever been relational. It�s relationships, not just values, which change real
people�s lives.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">Alan Finlayson argues in his wonderful post
�Making Sense of Maurice Glasman� that Blue Labour�s emphasis on
relationships and reciprocity rather than abstract values makes it disconcerting
for many Labour people. For both Finlayson and Stuart White, it is Blue
Labour�s hostile relationship to liberal universalism that is at issue.
Finlayson suggests that this hostility will ensure Blue Labour�s take up is
limited. As he notes, �Blue Labour has inadvertently proven just how hard it
is in England to think beyond the assumptions of the Liberal tradition�.
White, by contrast, asks for Blue Labour�s celebration of the history of
local political struggle to be blended with a left-liberal tradition of
universal rights, that has Thomas Paine at its centre. Neither are right, I
think, because they over-estimate the power of liberal concepts to explain
how people actually live their lives.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">�<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">To judge when and how it should act, what I�d
call the Liberal/Fabian state relies on abstract values that impose universal
rules. These days, its sole criteria for success are statistics. As I was
told by the Chief Executive of the authority where I was once a councillor a
few years ago, if you can�t measure it, it doesn�t count.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">Maurice Glasman and the group who�ve come
together under the banner �Blue Labour� argue that this political philosophy
is, literally, worthless. The free market and the centralised,
statistically-obsessed state try to subordinate the local peculiarities of
life to universal values, whether those values are established by the price
mechanism or a language of universal rights. In reality our lives only make
sense within concrete contexts and relationships. If the market or centralised
state annihilate those local contexts, life literally loses its meaning.
Happily � and this is our source of hope � such devastation happens rarely.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">Following Karl Polanyi, Glasman goes on to
argue that local organisation doesn�t only sustain the skills and virtues
which makes life meaningful, but the cash values that allow the market
economy to work. Markets are only sustainable when they�re driven by what
Finlayson describes as �real production carried out by real people making
things that they care about�.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">Alan Finlayson�s sharpest point is to note that
this is an �ontological� critique of capitalism: to believe money is the
source of value or power is to believe something wrong rather than bad. But
the point can be extended to encompass the critique that Glasman and others
offer of liberal politics more generally. The problem with the liberal idea
of the identical, relation-less self-determining individual is not that it is
bad (although it is that) but that it is a false description of the way human
beings act.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">My point here is that Blue Labour is not
offering an alternative vision of how the world should be, nor is it harking
back to a by-gone past. What it argues is that politicians should use the
resources of a forgotten Labour tradition to describe the way the world is
now. Its realistic capacity of describing how people actually are is why I�m
far more optimistic than Finlayson about its chance to politically succeed.� <u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><b><span>The
anti Liberal-Labour Ontology of Blue Labour: choosing relationships and
reciprocity over abstract rights and ideals</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">�So what does this anti-liberal Labour ontology
look like? I�d like to emphasise two aspects. First of all, Blue Labour
starts with the fact that human existence happens in relationships. Everyday
life, from birth to death, is structured by the way we relate to other
people, whether our parents, lovers, children, colleagues or friends. The
passions and reasons that drive our politics are rooted in the concrete
relational connections we have with others. It is only after having a
politically relevant relationship that we can talk of abstract moral values
to start with, even if that simply means (as is rarely the case) a friend
gives us a work of political philosophy which inspires us, or a hostile
relationship to a figure in authority. The stories people tell about why they
are Labour always begin with an account of the concrete relations with
others.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">This emphasis on the centrality of
relationships does not make Blue Labour a branch of �communitarian� political
thought, as both Alan Finlayson and Stuart White think. Finlayson is wrong to
suggest Glasman �fall[s] back on the notion of a natural community� for
example. Blue Labour�s political philosophers � Jonathan Rutherford and Marc
Stears as well as Glasman � use the word �relationship� far more often than
�community� in the recent Soundings e-book. �Community� has a nebulous
abstraction that contradicts Blue Labour�s concrete sensibility.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">Unlike communities, relationships occur all
around us, and they provide the basis for challenging the dominance of
unrestrained capitalism. Most people most of the time are doing things which
are not ruled by the instrumental logic of the market, or its statist
surrogate. And both the market and state rely on relationships that contradict
the official logic of each. The question is how, in increasingly difficult
times, those relationships allow us to do more than barely survive, and
create lives in which we flourish and find true meaning and fulfilment.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">Blue Labour�s argument is that for that to
happen, the kind of relationships which allow the good life to thrive need to
be organised in institutions which provide a basis for common action. What
matters is not an institution�s formal structure or the abstract principles
supposed to rule it, but how far it brings disparate people together in
solidarity and friendship to act together for the common good.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">Our everyday lives are full of countless
moments, in many institutions where there is the potential to do this �
where, in other words, relationships of friendship and solidarity exist that
might become the basis for common action. Faith groups, which often actively
nurture solidarity, are one starting point. It is faith�s distance from the
liberal official discourse of politics that makes it such a powerful starting
point for political action. But they are many others: the informal networks
that young parents create at the school gates; the pub or the coffee shop;
the extended family; the alternative family structures of gay and lesbian
life; the conviviality which still exists at the margins of the workplace; as
Daniel Hodges notes even that most unlikely place, the shopping mall. Faced
with the capitalist, bureaucrat and manager�s ever greater demand that we
produce abstract, meaningless value, human beings nonetheless possess the
remarkable capacity to create meaningful forms of common life.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">We aren�t so atomised common action is
impossible. There are places where that may be the case � former Labour
heartlands where the demise of dominant industries and reliance on nothing
but an utterly un-relational state has devastated collective. But in most
places, solidarity exists � it�s just the liberal (and neo-liberal) official
language of politics make it hard to recognise. The assumption that our polity
is made up of nothing but individuals on the one hand and the state on the
other allows us to ignore the places where collective action already wields
power, for good or ill. It allows us to forget the extraordinary lobbying
force of the City of London for example. More importantly, it fails to
recognise where people who feel they can�t make a difference are able to
develop their existing relationships into power that can challenge the
commodification of everything around them.�<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;"><b><span>The
State</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">�The challenge, I think, is how the state might
be organised to nurture common life rather than annihilate it. That needs a
democratic central power which strongly leads, but which recognises that its
role is to coordinate and balance between institutions that are closer to
people�s lives than it is. But ways need to be found to root public
institutions within the balance of interests that exist in local society.
Maurice Glasman proposes the creation of public bodies owned and controlled
by a partnership between the state, workers and local citizens, and the
growing number of Cooperative schools have put a similar model into practice.
Such a model rejects a simplistic opposition between local and centralised
control, and formalises the actual partnership between funders, workers and
users which public service delivery in practice relies on. Again, Blue Labour
proposes reforms which reflect how we actually are.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height: 10.2pt;">What matters is practical relationship-building
within public institutions and the real not merely formal incorporation of
citizens into decision-making at every scale. What White describes as �a
democracy of confident popular self assertion� can only be built by
developing strong relationships and common life in the institutions of a
particular place � something our short-term political and governmental
culture makes almost entirely impossible. As well as constitutional change,
local democracy requires stability and the art of good local leadership over
the very long term. Instead of political science or management studies, the
knowledge which the art of politics relies on is necessarily historical.� <u></u><u></u></p>
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