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RE: Libertarian Social Democracy: Delegative Democracy, Land Value Tax, & Universal Basic Income
Western society is supposedly built upon this pillar of democracy.
how does it come that Plato despised democracy, saying that it always descend into despotism (what we have now)... democracy is 2 wolves and 1 sheep talking about dinner.
That's only one particular model of democracy. That certainly isn't true of Abdullah Öcalan's consensus-based democracy, nor of the sort of democracy that David Graeber advocates. That's only the case with certain types of majoritarian democracy. I don't think there is any way to organize society on a non-democratic basis that isn't worse than democracy. Democracy isn't perfect, but it has the potential to be better than the alternatives.
For more of my thoughts on this, see:
https://steemit.com/anarchism/@ekklesiagora/libertarian-social-democracy-the-structure-of-a-free-society
and: https://steemit.com/anarchism/@ekklesiagora/why-i-m-not-an-anarchist-anymore
Also, Plato's political ideas didn't shape Western civilization much. It was Plato's metaphysics and epistemology (universal forms, essentialism, absolutes) that influenced Western thought, not his politics. Everyone pretty much thinks his politics is garbage. It was his student Aristotle whose politics influenced Western civilization politically, and particularly only the rule of law aspects. Modern Western civilization, at least, is more built upon Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Voltaire.