Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I say we stop playing this shareholder profit game and build our own society and make laws against shareholder profits, billionaires, lobbyists, corporations, health insurance, unaffordable housing, jobs that don’t pay a living wage, the two party system, gerrymandering, congressional benefits, congressional stock holding, labor exploitation, kidnapping people with masks on, disappearing people, for profit prisons, concentration camps, and private campaign finance. We can then have a trial for everyone who has committed crimes against the people
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
What you are looking for is anarchism. Please, read up on it. Kropotkin is a wonderful starting point. David Graeber’s work is also great; less political and more anthropological but still a great source of information to get started.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Maybe temporarily but the idea would be to re establish a functional democracy with checks and balances against corruption
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
I disagree. Power doesn’t need to come from the top down. The current system of hierarchical authority established through a small body of elected representatives that have controlling authority over a vast number of people is what allows for corruption. Corruption only works because entities gain hierarchical control over a population and, through the abuse of systemic power, force its will down the chain.
On the other hand, a system where power of authority comes from the bottom up and is distributed horizontally across a federated body syndicated interest groups inherently prevents corruption as no singular entity can commandeer controlling authority over the other. Authority is established only through mutual agreement reached through a consensus of all parties involved. Through this structure of governance people will always retain the ability to de-federate from any corrupt entity and bypass its authority.
If corruption cannot take control over your means of living your life, the corrupt have no power over you.