Self-organization and internal democracy

SELF-ORGANIZATION AND INTERNAL DEMOCRACY IN POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND PARTIES

PART I. 1. Class, self-organization and party in the classics

- References to Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky

Resolution 12th CM - Socialist Democracy 1985

2 . History of the workers' movement

2.1. Self-organization in the revolutionary phases

 - The Paris Commune

 - The Soviets

 - The Spanish revolution

2.2. Self-organization as a tool of class struggle in non-revolutionary periods

 - Mutualism in Europe at the dawn of the workers' movement (late 18th century, early 19th century)

 - German model versus French-Italian model

PART II.

3. Direct and indirect democracy

- Limits of representative democracy

- What is direct democracy?

3.1 Tradition and actuality of direct democracy in Latin America

    - indigenous communities Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru,...

    - Zapatistas

    - Landless Movement in Brazil
    - Piqueter@s and recuperated companies in Argentina

3.2 Feminist critique of hierarchical and patriarchal organization

Democracy is not only a question of rules. Alternative models

Experiences of the World March of Women

New feminist wave

- horizontality - role and power of the assembly - consensus method

- absence of a leader

- refusal of representation

- inclusiveness

PART III.

4. The role of the revolutionary party

- political program

- political" and "social" divide. Avant-garde shortcuts. Electoralism.

- an example of socio-political subjectivation: the GKN's mutual aid society

5. Internal democracy within the party

- democratic centralism

- natural" functioning mechanisms

- compensatory mechanisms

Extracts from: The dictatorship of the proletariat and socialist democracy [1]

THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS by Jo Freeman aka Joreen [2]

Berit As: Master suppression techniques [3]