A world social structure of accumulation (SSA) is forming based on global segmentation of labor, financialization, and a neoliberal trade regime. Unlike its Fordist era counterpart, this SSA lacks a corresponding regime for consumption because it has outsourced production to low-wage authoritarian regions. This is resulting in inadequate purchasing power within developed nations for whom global production is intended, raising the potential of global crisis. In fact, these emerging structures may implode before any significant accumulation occurs when the US consumer debt bubble that has been fueling consumption bursts. The article concludes that the emerging system is intensifying class contradictions embedded in private property relations that will lead to intensified downturns. Therefore, the only structural solution is not reform but fundamental reorganization of socioeconomic relations. However, this requires a new transnational labor-activist movement willing to challenge the legitimacy of capitalism with radical counter-ideology and militant direct action.
RESumO: Argumenta-se que a democracia direta é atingível, mas apenas em formas que se conectam às experiências da vida diária. Ao modificar as instituições existentes de governança é pragmaticamente possível alcançar uma sociedade que se assemelhe a utopias distantes. uma proposta baseia-se no argumento de que todos os sistemas eleitorais são inerentemente fraudulentos sob qualquer regime. Pelo contrário, a democracia direta só pode fornecer igualdade substantiva. Portanto sugere-se que os poderes legislativo e judicial devem ser preenchidos por sorteio, deixando as demos como o executivo através de votação pela Internet modelada no princípio de proposições do estado. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: democracia; eleições; teoria social; sistemas políticos.ABSTRACT: It is argued direct democracy is attainable but only in ways that connect to the experiences of daily life. By modifying existing institutions of governance it is pragmatically possible to achieve a society resembling distant utopias. One proposal is based on the argument that all electoral systems are inherently fraudulent under any regime. Rather, direct democracy alone can provide substantive equality. Therefore it is suggested legislative and judicial branches be filled by lottery while leaving the demos as the executive through internet voting modeled on the principle of state propositions. KEyWORDS: democracy; elections; social theory; political systems. JEL Classification: D7; D72.Representative democracy has resulted in a system where those who own the means of production effectively control the political process (Asimakopoulos, 2011;Domhoff, 1975Domhoff, , 2010 mills, 2000[1956). Consequently most public policy tends to privilege corporate interests over those of the community and the environment. under a political system of direct representation such corporate dominance could be
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