I’m not as clued up on theory as a lot here. I’ve read quite a bit of Lenin and understand his arguments against Parliamentary democracy. What I struggle with is understanding the alternative.
I’ve heard people on the left use the term Participatory Democracy but like all terms it seems to be adopted by the right leading to popularism and referendums. Is the term something Marxists use? If so what’s a good source on the topic?
If it’s not what term should we use?
Thanks in advance. I hope my question makes sense.
Participatory democracy is just the term people in the leninist tradition use for the operational form of proletarian democracy that would operate during a more advanced dictatorship of the proletariat, at least socialsit societies that have gone beyond the faulty representative systems of the USSR or the DPRK today just to name some examples.
Maybe the most advanced theoretical form of communist popular government is the democratically planned socialist economies advocated by Paul Cockshott, more commonly known by the term of cybersocialism. I think these videos do a good job of going thru the history and explaining how that would actually operate.
Ok thanks. Will check them out.
