For example, this is exactly what Sanders' campaign is all about:
"It was always difficult to image that, within the realm of representative democracy, a leftist party could be elected with the expectation that they will be the sole driver of progressive transformative social change. This type of old leftist politics is dead. Instead, what is needed today is new progressive thinking. New forms of revolutionary politics and organisation and social philosophies of societal transformation. The revolutionary process requires guidance, but guidance by a political party (be it a Leninist or a social democratic party) is or should be a non-starter. This sort of guidance perpetuates, as we have seen time and again, the institutional and corporate world.[1] To the contrary: as part of a longstanding, widely developed and recognized thesis at Heathwood, emancipatory politics must have a grassroots centre of gravity and emphasis."
I.e., we the people have to get involved and not let leaders take sole responsibility. We must shift from the old school belief in leaders to show us the way and take charge ourselves. It's a shift from the unbalanced autonomous self of capitalism to the balanced individual/social self of the P2P Commons.
Just as the old model of a leftist government trying to solve our problems is a non-starter, so is trying to give said leftists like Sanders an 'integral' model as if that will solve the problem. Both approaches are still stuck in the unconscious mode that "perpetuates, as we have seen time and again, the institutional and corporate world." Joseph and Eric are right about that one.
"It was always difficult to image that, within the realm of representative democracy, a leftist party could be elected with the expectation that they will be the sole driver of progressive transformative social change. This type of old leftist politics is dead. Instead, what is needed today is new progressive thinking. New forms of revolutionary politics and organisation and social philosophies of societal transformation. The revolutionary process requires guidance, but guidance by a political party (be it a Leninist or a social democratic party) is or should be a non-starter. This sort of guidance perpetuates, as we have seen time and again, the institutional and corporate world.[1] To the contrary: as part of a longstanding, widely developed and recognized thesis at Heathwood, emancipatory politics must have a grassroots centre of gravity and emphasis."
I.e., we the people have to get involved and not let leaders take sole responsibility. We must shift from the old school belief in leaders to show us the way and take charge ourselves. It's a shift from the unbalanced autonomous self of capitalism to the balanced individual/social self of the P2P Commons.
Just as the old model of a leftist government trying to solve our problems is a non-starter, so is trying to give said leftists like Sanders an 'integral' model as if that will solve the problem. Both approaches are still stuck in the unconscious mode that "perpetuates, as we have seen time and again, the institutional and corporate world." Joseph and Eric are right about that one.
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