Scientific Direct Democracy

Vassals against the state and capitalism The goal of the working class is liberation from exploitation. This goal is not reached and cannot be reached by a new directing and governing class substituting the bourgeoisie. It can only be realised by the workers themselves being master over production. An exploited class, however, cannot be liberated by simply voting and bringing into power a group of new governors. A political party cannot bring freedom, but, when it wins, only new forms of domination. Freedom can be won by the working masses only through their own organised action, by taking their lot into their own hands, in devoted exertion of all their faculties, by directing and organising their fight and their work themselves by means of their councils.

State master and enslaved vassals | State-private parasitism The State is an unduly expensive parasitical organism. Starting out as an agency defending the position of the wealthy classes, the modern State has become an end in itself, a supreme master of lives and finances, at the heart of everything. Which is why its bureaucracy, police and militarism have expanded. In government we are all the same! And we cannot serve two masters. Hence our insistence that we make our minds up. With the people, or with the State? Our conclusion is that in standing with the State and thus against the people.

Nation-state and war-making Both civil and interstate wars are fought over the institutional structure of the state, and thus are most likely to break out when these institutional principles are contested. More precisely, our model suggests that the mechanisms relating nation-state formation to war are similar. http://www.columbia.edu/~aw2951/FromEmpireNationState.pdf

Direct democracy against capitalism and statecraft | Direct democracy or barbarism As noted above, direct democracy (as the only real form of democracy), follows completely different logic from capitalism. It is a political project that strives at radically redistributing decision-making power equally among all members of society. In doing so, it directly attacks all other forms of inequality, as citizens undertake directly the management of all social spheres via public gra...ssroots institutions. Instead of competition, it implies cooperation and equal participation. In the democratic project, according to Bookchin, property is integrated into the commune as a material constituent of its libertarian institutional framework, indeed as a part of a larger whole that is controlled by the citizen body in assembly as citizens not as vocationally oriented interest groups. Only by conceiving democracy as a holistic project that we can understand that it is not only incompatible with capitalist relations and statecraft, but it requires their complete abolition. It is up to all of us collectively to make the choice of the 21st century democracy or barbarism. See more

Direct democratic planned economy | Albert Einstein I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be d...one among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured? See more

Money creators-masters and workers-slaves | Savages under capitalism The capitalist then comes to the market in the capacity, if not of an absolutely free agent, at least that of an infinitely freer agent than the worker. What happens in the market is a meeting between a drive for lucre and starvation, between master and slave. Juridically they are both equal; but economically the worker is the serf of the capitalist, even before the market transaction has been concluded whe...reby the worker sells his person and his liberty for a given time. The worker is in the position of a serf because this terrible threat of starvation which daily hangs over his head and over his family, will force him to accept any conditions imposed by the gainful calculations of the capitalist, the industrialist, the employer. And once the contract has been negotiated, the serfdom of the workers is doubly increased; or to put it better, before the contract has been negotiated, goaded by hunger, he is only potentially a serf; after it is negotiated he becomes a serf in fact. Because what merchandise has he sold to his employer? It is his labor, his personal services, the productive forces of his body, mind, and spirit that are found in him and are inseparable from his person - it is therefore himself. From then on, the employer will watch over him, either directly or by means of overseers; everyday during working hours and under controlled conditions, the employer will be the owner of his actions and movements. When he is told: "Do this," the worker is obligated to do it; or he is told: "Go there," he must go. Is this not what is called a serf? See more

Abolition of work for money, state and companies | Working and studying savages for numerical values So capitalism is an economic system based on hired labour, that is selling your labour (liberty) piecemeal to a boss. For anarchists, this is best called wage slavery. Anarchism aims for associated labour, free labour in other words the situation where those who do the work manage it. In the longer term, the aim is for abolition of work (work/play becoming the same thing). To quote Kropotkin, we aim to create the situation where each person may live by working freely, without being forced to sell [their] work and [their] liberty to others who accumulate wealth by the labour of their serfs.

State serfdom and bonded vassals But it is nevertheless true that in proportion as the liberation from personal servitude of man to man was achieved during the course of the nineteenth century, servitude towards the State was always growing. As for indirect servitude, obtained by means of taxation and capitalist monopoly [and] less visible at first sight, it grows every day.

Violent theft in trade and state formation

Trade is theft | Private-state property theft and exchange In other words, privately owned land was originally stolen in order to make it privately owned.

Servitude in civilization | From chattel slaves to wage slaves The institution of Slavery is the principal cause of civilization. Perhaps nothing can be more evident than that it is the sole cause... Without it, there can be no accumulation of property, no providence for the future, no taste for comforts and elegancies, which are the characteristics and essentials of civilization.... Servitude is the condition of civilization.

Dismantling the nation-state cage through democratic autonomy Democratic autonomy is based on local, democratic, pluralistic, equitable, solidarity-based and participatory cooperation. https://komun-academy.com//03/building-democratic-autonomy/ https://komun-academy.com//dimensions-of-democratic-auton/... https://komun-academy.com//democratic-autonomy-and-self-g/