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[Technocracy Technate]

Thank you for letting us join your forums. Technocracy is the most radical and revolutionary organisation on earth.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Thank you for letting us join your forums. Technocracy is the most radical and revolutionary organisation on earth.

You mean the model offered by Howard Scott and company?

http://1.2.3.13/bmi/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/Admin-chart.gif

My criticism is that it was too hierarchical and would have degenerated into an oligarchic despotism. Any attempt to fix Tech Inc's model would involve at the very least, removal of the Continental Director, the Continental Board, the Area Board and the Area Control units. The Functional Sequences would then function as administratively independent Holons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holon_%28philosophy%29), each with their own Continental Councils and geographical subdivisions. All Councils should function in the same manner as worker's councils (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_council), including the General Council which is to assume the functions of the Continental Board/Director. I've included my own diagram based on the one above, to help illustrate my point:

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/3866/acttorganisation.png

I also flipped around the relative positions of the General Council and Special and Functional Sequences in order to place emphasis on what I consider a more equitable power arrangement.

The "Armed Forces" special sequence would have commanders directly elected and recallable by the troops, although of course I'm also open to the idea of not having a professional armed force and having instead a Popular Militia drawn from the general population. I suppose it depends on how badly a professional fighting force would be needed in the circumstances. If we're lucky and it turns out we don't need a cadre of professionally trained killers, then that simplifies my diagram even more.

[Камо́ Зэд]

Hello, comrade. I'm new, too, so let's work well together. I was actually interested in technocracy for some time before I adopted the theoretical framework of Marxism-Leninism. I don't mean to initiate a debate here, though. I look forward to future exchanges, and perhaps we can discuss the finer points of socioeconomic theory sometime.