{"id":841,"date":"2026-04-09T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2026-04-12T20:57:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:57:56","slug":"anarchy-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"Anarchy > Democracy ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I read Moxie Marlinspike&#8217;s (Founder of Signal) <a href=\"https:\/\/theanarchistlibrary.org\/library\/moxie-marlinspike-and-windy-hart-audio-anarchy-radio-an-anarchist-critique-of-democracy\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/theanarchistlibrary.org\/library\/moxie-marlinspike-and-windy-hart-audio-anarchy-radio-an-anarchist-critique-of-democracy\">critique of democracy<\/a> recently, that there are problems <em>inherent<\/em> to the system itself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Democracy turns people into passive selectors of pre-made options, implying that those who control the agenda hold real power.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The majority imposes decisions on minorities, even thought technically the \u201cmajority\u201d is often just the largest minority group.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Built-in (unfixable) vulnerabilities include: demagoguery, lobbying, and corruption.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It presents itself as the only legitimate system, and synonymous with freedom. But voting gives an illusion of control, real power remains elsewhere.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Participating in elections legitimises the system. It channels dissent into<strong> <\/strong>safe, limited actions instead of direct change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Their alternative is anarchy (self-organisation and direct action), which is great for smaller scale matters, but how would that work for the public service elements? Transport, power grids, healthcare. These things necessitate long-term infrastructure planning, oversight, maintenance, standards, among other considerations. Fragmented decision-making from loose voluntary groups most likely cannot deliver outcomes efficiently enough. There would still be a need of <em>some form<\/em> of large-scale coordination system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I always think about, &#8220;How do we keep large-scale coordination, but give people more direct influence and control?&#8221;. Some rabbit holes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Preferendums during elections (rank issues on priority, giving leaders a mandate to follow)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Energy co-operatives in Sch\u00f6nau and Feldheim. Owned and run by the people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use tech for faster feedback loops. Continuous engagement by proposing policies and voting more frequently<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Citizens assemblies to deliberate on specific issues<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Participatory budgeting: Schools vs roads vs parks etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Moxie Marlinspike&#8217;s (Founder of Signal) critique of democracy recently, that there are problems inherent to the system itself: Their alternative is anarchy (self-organisation and direct action), which is great for smaller scale matters, but how would that work for the public service elements? Transport, power grids, healthcare. These things necessitate long-term infrastructure planning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}