Pluriarchy

Citation

David de Ugarte:

"This separation between the domain of community organisation – pluriarchy – and that of the community management of scarcity – democracy – reproduces the distinction between spaces which is the basis for Phyles." (http://deugarte.com/gomi/phyles.pdf)

Source Book: Phyles: Economic Democracy in the Network Century. by David de Ugarte

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David de Ugarte et al,.:

“In pluriarchy theories (as opposed to Bard and Soderqvist's theory of netocracy), this system emerges spontaneously in distributed social networks and becomes possible in these networks because in them prevails what Juan Urrutia has called "abundance logic": one's option does not detract from everyone else's possibilities. In democracy, by contrast, scarcity imposes collective decisions over individual ones, and thus pluriarchy "makes it impossible to maintain the fundamental notion of democracy, where the majority prevails over the minority when there are differences of opinion." In a pluriarchic system, decision-making is not binary. It's not a matter of either/or, yes or no: it's a matter of degrees. Someone proposes something, and anyone can join in. The scope of the action will depend on the sympathy and degree of agreement caused by the proposal. Even if the majority not only not sympathised but were also against it, they would be unable to prevent its implementation.” (http://deugarte.com/gomi/Nations.pdf)