Trotsky argument against local democracy
anecdote · Trotsky/political ·
retold in 3 talks
Trotsky's argument against hyper-localism: would you really want to spend every afternoon in tedious community meetings about water distribution and children's education? The argument for preferring an efficient invisible state that simply delivers.
As told 1
“would you really like to live in such a shitty local democracy situation every afternoon you have to go to some stupid meeting how we organize the education of children how we distribute water”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Erich Mielke1Justin Trudeau1Ruhollah Khomeini1Nigel Farage1Paul Mason1Winston Churchill1Max Weber1Emmanuel Levinas1
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Trotsky's argument against hyper-localism: would you really want to spend every afternoon in tedious community meetings about water distribution and children's education? The argument for preferring an efficient invisible state that simply delivers., illustrating nicely alienated state,democracy