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RE: The Precarity of Anarchy: A Reason to Doubt

in #anarchism7 years ago (edited)

You should look into liquid democracy or delegative democracy....its basically direct and participatory in principle, but people who don't want to participate can delegate their vote to someone else, a delegate, who acts kind of like a representative(but not exactly).

"Libertarian social democracy with a republican system"... Let's unpack that.

Republican simply means "representative democracy"

Libertarian, as I use the term, means left-libertarian or classical libertarian, harking back to libertarian socialism which sought communal-ownership of land and the abolition of wage-slavery. I call my model libertarian social democracy insofar as it involves abolishing wage-slavery through making land publicly-owned (in principle, at least) by instituting a land value tax (or ground-rent) and distributing the revenue evenly amongst the citizens as a universal basic income.

Social democracy just designates a democratic society, with a market system, but that uses taxation in order to fund welfare programs that alleviate the injustices that naturally arise under laissez-faire.

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Thank you for the explanation and compass. 😀 I'm clipping this into my notebook to refer back to.

Look forward to reading your future (and past) posts!