Category: democracy

The Suffocation of Democracy in India –

On December 18 and 19, 141 members of the two houses of India’s Parliament were suspended, as of December 19, by the Speaker of the lower house, Om Birla. Each of these members belongs to the parties that oppose the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its leader, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The government said that these elected members were suspended for “unruly behavior.” The opposition had shaped itself into the INDIA bloc, which included almost every party not affiliated with the BJP. They responded to this action by calling it the “murder of democracy” and alleging that the BJP government has installed an “extreme level of dictatorship” in India.

Source: The Suffocation of Democracy in India – CounterPunch.org

  What Could the Promise Be of Democracy 4.0? 

Democracy 4.0, however, is an aspiration rendered more difficult by the flaws of 3.0 but more urgently necessary by global warming—a “timed test,” the clock set by the laws of physics. The challenge is to adapt governance, law, politics, and economies to the way the Earth works as a complex biophysical system. And, there’s the rub, first because earlier transitions were slow, taking centuries for ideas to take hold and second because we are not good at making systemic changes without causing havoc. Even so, democracy 4.0 cannot be just a slight improvement of our present democracy.

Source: Opinion | What Could the Promise Be of Democracy 4.0? | Common Dreams

The US, China and the DMNC model

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/10/04/cia-director-william-burns-china-kicking-americas-ass-in-tech-war-main-area-for-geopolitical-competition/

I am not in the business of stoking the US/China divide but in this case it is of interest to note that if the US is falling behind China it is because its ideologies are in a state of confusion. China’s fake communism and compromise with markets however strikes a blow in the direction of our DMNC model where the US is stuck seemingly forever in a capitalist stranglehood. And that is starting to fail. Not that China isn’t almost capitalist itself.
But the grounds for revolution in the Last Revolution were almost abstraction in a model of virtual revolution. And yet suddenly we see that a revolution to something like a DMNC model would be greatly to the US’s advantage in the global sphere if it could be brought about by a group with the power, means and grasp of issues to bring it off. Unfortunately the US system is in the hands of mostly hopeless dolts, psychopaths as politicians spawned by so-called democracy.
At any rate, a complex nexus of socialist markets, planning and some parallel planned entities in the context of a Commons, and with a starting gesture toward a new International without the criminal mafia of covert agences and Zionists would fit the bill perfectly for the US which could regain its coherence and idealism and international leader all at once. Revolutions tend to be actions against an elite, but here a revolutionary group and some parts of that elite could create a neo-communism that could be very effective and halt the inexorable slide into the realm of imperialism, crime, and capitalist dictatorship now passing for ‘democracy’.