I'm far-left, it would be accurate to describe me as a communist. Now, to clarify my position (since "communist" can have many implications), I'm for council communism. Think of the Russian Soviets (worker's councils). I do however fully acknowledge that the old soviets quickly became vehicles for the USSR bureaucracy to put only the people they wanted in there. I think that democracy at a local level, without political parties and with participation of anyone who wants in at the decision making process is ideal, together with a wide national level with very representative parliaments (in case of Belgium, with 11 000 000 inhabitants, a 1000 headed parliament would be ideal) and one of the parliaments being randomly picked people as a check against a representative parliament. The national level should mainly concern themselves with things like defense, foreign policy and making guidelines for infrastructure and such. Also, I think that except for banning hate speech that people should be free to speak and criticize. 'Communist' nations of old and present have a big problem in trusting their people, that should be fixed.
Well, that explanation got larger than I intended.







