It turned out that we were doing both at once: erecting a massive electronic infrastructure that outpaces our ability to democratically manage it and shifting our economy backward to recreate the chasms of class divide that marked the nineteenth century.
Food sovereignty involves a broader vision than food security, asserting communities' power to democratically manage productive food system resources such as land, water and seeds, and to engage in trade on their own terms rather than being subjected to speculation through international commodity markets (Desmarais 2007; Wittman 2011).
But until those public spaces are more accessible, housing more inclusive and cities more democratically managed, these occupations and protests are likely to continue unabated.
And in 1987, South Mountain Company was born as a democratically managed worker cooperative – one of more than 100 such enterprises now registered with the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives.
All of history, Marx said, is the struggle between an exploiting minority and an exploited majority, most recently between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat; and he advocated the formation of a Communist Party to stimulate proletarian class consciousness and to encourage the proletarian seizure of power and the institution of a just and democratically managed socialist society.
"What Co-opoly does is teach the skills that people need to work in a democratically managed business such as good communication, dealing with conflict and team building". To get started all team members are given characters, not a top hat or Scotty dog like in Monopoly, but instead you could be a recent immigrant sending money home, a single parent or a student at college.
The prospect that those ills can be cured by joining together in open, collaborative, and democratically managed green electricity cooperatives to produce and share clean energy is empowering.
The telecommunication and cable companies, and the profit-making online enterprises are not the only commercial players attempting to thwart an open, transparent, and democratically managed Internet of Things infrastructure.
In order to receive this price, growers must pay to become certified, join a democratically managed cooperative, agree to standards for pesticide and chemical fertilizer use, and pay "fair wages" to coffee laborers.
The funds must democratically be managed by the communities themselves so they do not disappear in the government corruption.
The democratically elected usually manage to leave with some dignity intact – even if in Britain the removal is often criticised for its humiliating haste.
