Yes, forms of organisation are the main problem.
It's a scale problem. The scope of the action is preponderant. Beyond a
certain number of individuals, participatory democracy is no longer
possible. Sizes of communities, and/or size of territories impose some
limits to the organizational force. We have thought for centuries that
change could come from macro events, macro-structures, globalized or
nation-size mass-actions, global ideologies or revolutions. But most of
the original ideas and ethics have not survived to reality of the mass,
bureaucracy, corruption, and so on. Any centralisation on a big-scale
system is a source of failure.
But under a certain number of individuals, organisation have no effets
nore perennity. Molecular revolution is like radioactivity,
sociodynamics and cycling. The power comes from the critical mass .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass_(sociodynamics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass_(cycling) and this critical
mass is deeply related to the topology and rugosity of the field.
In many places of the worls, people invest in lot of micro-structures,
citizen-sized cells, in all fields of daily life ( community supported
agriculture, non-profit dispensary, wireless community networks,
associative schools or universities, citizen energy smart grid and so
on...). It's not a "potential", it's a reality. Add local currencies,
and many other self-sustained citizen-oriented services, and you have
more power than any global corporation. This movement has started, and
has the biggest power ever to transform the thermo-industrial capitalist
society into a better (climate-change resilient) world.
When the creation of specialized citizen micro-structures will be
generalized, will be born a collective conscience, able to generate and
extract revocable leaders for each speciliazed cell, and bigger scale
actions could be taken to solve macro problems ( ressources and climate).
JN (Fr.)
sorry for the bad translations sometimes.
https://at06.eu
Le 05/08/2018 à 07:48, Brian Holmes a écrit :
[....] Meanwhile I am afraid that state power doesn't give a damn
about "what is beyond its organization."[....] The thing to do right
now is to turn widespread dissatisfaction and a very clear perception
of the sources of injustice into an organizational force that can
change the corporate state.
Le 05/08/2018 à 07:48, Brian Holmes a écrit :
What I learned from that experience is that grassroots action, or
molecular revolution or whatever you want to call it, is capable of
opening up a potential, rather like art does.
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