Council Democracy – The Fourth Estate

Scenario 1999: The “Social” Aspect of Social Forums

By Duty and Honor on April 26, 2023 • ( 0 )

Given that the political and the economic life of the Totality in the Social Forums and Social Courts are intertwined with Real World affairs offline, it becomes inevitable to conclude that the social life of the Totality in the Social… Read More ›

Scenario 1999: Political Functions of Social Forums

By Duty and Honor on April 26, 2023 • ( 1 )

The Social Forums, together withthe Social Courts, govern the rest of the National Intranet on behalf of the Council State. Politically, they are designed to function as the Digital Realm’s extension of the Real World’s Council Democracy for the nation… Read More ›

Hierarchy of Council Democracy

By Duty and Honor on April 20, 2023 • ( 0 )

Today’s most recent Entry, “Hamiltonianism in Words, “Jeffersonianism in Deeds (Pt. III of III)” featured a detail description of how Council Democracy is organized. A reading of that Entry will discover the obvious absence of a diagram depicting the Hierarchy… Read More ›

Hamiltonianism in Words, Jeffersonianism in Deeds (Pt. III of III)

By Duty and Honor on April 20, 2023 • ( 2 )

The interplay between political, economic and social interests will function differently in Council Democracy than how they function in Parliamentary Democracy. This is made possible because of how the electoral process was designed when it was originally discussed in The… Read More ›

Update (20 April 2023)

By Duty and Honor on April 20, 2023 • ( 0 )

I once wrote in The Work-Standard (2nd Ed.) that the “Separation of Powers” does not exist in Council Democracy. The more I began to understand how Council Democracy functions, the more I am beginning to realize the term itself will… Read More ›

Revision (19 April 2023)

By Duty and Honor on April 19, 2023 • ( 0 )

This brief post is intended to be a Revision to this morning’s Update on the ongoing Entries for The Digital Realm (1st Ed.). So far, “Hamiltonianism in Words, Jeffersonianism in Deeds (Pt. III of III)” is halfway finished. I just… Read More ›

Conservative Socialism: Thoughts on Feminism and Nationalism

By Duty and Honor on February 27, 2023 • ( 0 )

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was postulated by International Relations (IR) scholars that Nationalism as an ideology would become split between Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism. We know that there has been an ongoing surge in Nationalism since the… Read More ›

Work-Standard Accounting Practices: State Budgeting and State Funding

By Duty and Honor on February 21, 2023 • ( 0 )

Typically, when Arbeit is contributed to the Life-Energy Reserve, they are instantly converted to Geld by the Central Bank. This Geld goes straight to the “State Budget” of the Council State. From there, the Council State will then be able… Read More ›

Update (31 December 2022)

By Duty and Honor on December 31, 2022 • ( 0 )

Last night, I drew an important diagram regarding my conclusions in the previous post. Yes, I do think that “Post-Liberalism” and “Post-Capitalism,” when the two concepts are taken together as an opposition to Neoliberalism, are both lacking. It was not… Read More ›

Social Forums: A Digitalization of Council Democracy (Pt. II of II)

By Duty and Honor on November 19, 2022 • ( 1 )

In the previous post, I talked about how the National Intranet and the LERE Process could be governed by Social Forums presiding over computer networks, servers, and active websites. Equivalent to the Councils of a functioning Council Democracy, each Social… Read More ›