CouncilPyramid

1/ Did you know that the "council pyramid", the most popular organizing principle among both communists and anarchists, seems to have a structural tendency towards bureaucratization? Machover synthesizes crucial aspects of communist democracy in this almost unheard article 🧵👇🏽 https://t.co/1yqI7d4sPO

2/ Without setting a rigid scheme, Machover suggests several principles that should guide future direct democracy. Starting from these principles, he picks up the main contradiction (direct referendum - mediation of representatives) and develops his critique of the council model. https://t.co/k79qMvq3nT

3/ In addition to a sociological critique of the council pyramid, Machover provides a technical critique, with a mathematical development of its consequences. Such a model will tend to: Difusse the degree of grassroots influence over decisions made at the top. https://t.co/DdlHkL9Ed3

4/ Conflict with majority rule. That is, it allows a decision accepted in the council of delegates to go against the majority's will of the people at the base. https://t.co/ZBvD0Xmd08

5/ However, Machover does not rule out the council pyramid or its implementation within the party. He simply exposes the contradictions that would arise from its application as the only form of social organization. https://t.co/Sm7SxKhmeg

6/ In this sense, he proposes a bicameral structure in which two levels are established: an assembly of directly elected representatives and a council of delegates.

7/ This institutional framework aims to resolve the tension between the two complementary aspects of a communist commonwealth: individuality and collectivity. https://t.co/FD2Xlhrfvt

8/ While the former would reflect the interests of the individual citizen, the latter would reflect the interests of communities and organic collectivities

9/ Providing a math. development of the consequences of the different institutional frameworks, Machover presents a decision-making process that respects the principles of direct democracy and, at the same time, is feasible and captures decisions that today are made unconsciously https://t.co/RBvcuHoEZc

10/ Ref.: https://t.co/xOjoAQrkWh