This week @CarysJHughes @samcoatescymru and I are setting up Citizens for a Democratic Society @C4DSoc - an attempt to help democratisation efforts throughout the UK, across local government and in the institutions of civil society. opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
It's in part a response to the challenge this by @jemgilbert in September. If we weren't big enough to win last year, how do we grow to become big enough? We think we need to create collective bodies that are committed to radical equality. opendemocracy.net/en/we-lost-bec…
It's based on the premise that civil society and the state in much of the UK operates as a collection of rackets. Even when there is voting, the many are starved of information and opportunities to discover themselves as collective agents. The few prosper.
Citizens for a Democratic Society @C4DSoc is only one answer to the question "how do we build a coalition that can break up the power of manipulative elites now, and assemble as a body capable of taking over the central state?" It isn't a complete answer, how could it be?
If it strikes as chord, you can contact us via the article. We wish there was another way - a more exciting, quicker way. But we have come to believe that our best hope lies in the patient accumulation of democratic power, and the steady, pitiless destruction of rule by the few.
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