What is the difference between a worker's democracy and a direct democracy?

[Ohnoatard]

in other words.. socialist vs. anarchist ?

Thx in advance

[cb9's_unity]

Fist off they aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. A workers democracy strives to be a direct democracy if it is not already one. All a workers democracy entails is that it is a democracy run by the workers. Direct democracy is simply a democracy run by people elected directly by the people.

Socialism vs Anarchism is a similar situation, even if one that is harder to define. Most anarchists on this site would probably identify as being socialist. However obviously not all socialists are anarchists. In some ways the situation is confused by the fact that many people want to eventually achieve communist direct democracy but believe in different ways of getting there.

[Axle]

Well, a worker's democracy isn't a system, but I think you mean parliamentary democracy, which is where the population elects representatives to handle legislation and executive decisions, with someone acting as head of government.

Direct democracy is where the entire population gets a say in all aspects of national decision-making, without voting in representatives to do it for them, making it highly decentralized.

That's the most stripped-down answer I could give, I hope it helps.

[Q]

To put it succinctly: a workers democracy is a form of direct democracy.

[revolution inaction]

Direct democracy is simply a democracy run by people elected directly by the people.

i might have miss understood what you ment, but this sounds like a kind of representative democracy to me. Direct democracy is where it is run by the people.