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Lenin's Last Struggle - Revolutionary Communists of America
Polis is a prominent example of what leading ⿻ technologists Aviv Ovadya and Luke Thorburn call "collective response systems" and "bridging systems" and others call "wikisurveys".
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Jonathon P Sine • The Life and Times of Xi Zhongxun
Jonas Mirbeth’s contribution looks at West Berlin’s 1969 university reforms, specifically Protokoll und Protest in lectures by Klaus Heinrich. Here, we glimpse protocol colliding with politics: student protesters and a dissident professor challenging the official meeting minutes and procedures of an education reform — essentially fighting the
... See moreWhen Tiberius persuaded them to vote out of office the tribune who opposed him, his argument went along the lines of ‘if the people’s tribune no longer does what the people want, then he should be deposed’. That raised an issue still familiar in modern electoral systems. Are Members of Parliament, for example, to be seen as delegates of the voters,
... See moreMary Beard • SPQR
L’insurrection d’octobre a donc bien été préparée, lancée et dirigée par le parti bolchevique. Mais – et c’est un mais qui change tout – le parti d’alors n’a rien à voir avec ce qu’il est devenu par la suite. Même si son organisation est de type « conspiratif », il n’est nullement discipliné, il n’a rien de bureaucratique, on s’y dispute, on s’y
... See moreEric Hazan • La dynamique de la révolte: Sur des insurrections passées et d'autres à venir (LA FABRIQUE) (French Edition)
Week after week, we were inundated with the thoughts of Kim Il-sung, the heroic history of the Korean Workers’ Party, or earnest analysis of some ridiculous party newspaper article. And after the meeting, we were forced to stay for further discussions and presentations that always boiled down to the same thing: the brilliance of Kim Il-sung’s
... See moreMasaji Ishikawa • A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
“open parliament” movement, experimenting with a range of ways to make parliamentary procedures transparent to the public and experimenting with innovative voting methods.