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.
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.