Limits to the theory of self-organization
Goldberry and Bob Johnson have written two great diaries on how DailyKos operates and how it is viewed by the traditional media. I have posted similar thoughts(although not as well-expressed) on other...
View ArticleWar in the House of Labor
The American medical system ruins people’s lives for profit. Fortunately, union organizing drives in the medical industry are enjoying a higher-than-average rate of success. Unfortunately, two major...
View ArticleA Meta-layer for Restoring Democracy and Open Society: Part One, Conceptual...
ByJoseph M. Firestone and Henk HaddersThe DisconnectIt's hardly news that there’s a very wide chasm between voters, lawmakers and political parties. The rage in America reflected in the Republican...
View ArticleA Meta-layer for Restoring Democracy and Open Society: Part Two, Meta-layer...
ByJoseph M. Firestone and Henk HaddersRequirements for an e-participation platform in human political CASsWe won't be able to stop the movement toward oligarchy unless we can create a new institutional...
View ArticleA Meta-layer for Restoring Democracy and Open Society: Part Three, the IVCS
ByJoseph M. Firestone and Henk HaddersThis is the concluding post in a three-part series. The first post highlighted the problem of lack of representativeness in modern societies, characterized human...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meet-up: Three Tales of Three Cities; Karachi, Liverpool and...
Today's anti-capitalist meet-up is a discussion of three news-stories in three different countries whose purpose is to serve as an illustration of the different types of working class struggles we...
View ArticleAre We An Oligarchy Yet?
Matt Stoller believes that the recent pre-publication release of a study by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page doesn't support the idea that the United States is an oligarchy yet. He says:A lot of...
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