The Tools We Need to Implement Liquid Democracy
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Liquid Democracy“The state of men without civil society is nothing else but a mere war of all against all.” Thomas HobbesThe role of any political system is to organize a civil society so as to ensure the peaceful cohabitation of large populations and organize the flow of goods and services efficiently.Whereas the classical philosopher Thomas Hobbes clearly delineates the root of the need for an organized civil society, his statement needs to be tempered by Lord Acton famous quote: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”Today’s representational and delegative democracies are, to various degrees, all based on the need to elect men to manage the State, with the hope that they will be great men who work diligently for the greater (...)
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