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Please don't take it like tha

...that more genuine union democracy would be giving working people access to the fire hose.

.. “voluntary union membership” is a nice concept but how do you suggest sparking that idea and making it attractive to the “little guy”?

Just curious CD, just how would you go about getting the “little guy” to view their options in a different color?

Ultimately, though? You'll laugh. Still, just as a thought experiment, try to imagine this.

A bunch of people form a virtual association. And this virtual association transcends not only members' places of particular employments -- it transcends nationality. Also, of course, membership is totally voluntary, demanding but the most affordable possible dues.

To start with, the virtual association has one job only. Defending its membership from oppression. Regardless whether the source of oppression is big government, big labour or transnational corporation.

If this were implemented right -- and didn't turn into just another terrorist organization? It could re-define the nature of membership. It could ultimately become not only a trans-national union -- but a genuinely democratic virtual nation. The implications are absolute.

Yes! That's it exactly.

democratic anything has to exist within a context of democratic everything. Otherwise we are just slaves who get to vote, once in a while, on who the slave representative will be.

Practically, it means the more genuinely democratic association/union/team/society must first be organized by individuals of a fairly rare kind. Individuals who feel more powerful to be among 3 musketeers than by ruling it over however many downtrodden subjects.

Does any of this make sense to you?

Revolution is a class action, it is a class struggle. And it is also violent, because those who have power are not going to lose their vested interest easily; it is going to be a bloody, violent struggle in which thousands, sometimes millions of people will die....And the last thing to remember: revolution changes nothing. It is a wheel: One class comes into power, others become powerless. But sooner or later the powerless are going to become the majority, because the powerful don't want to share their power, they want to have it in as few hands as possible. ...When the powerful become the smaller group, the majority throws them away and another power group starts doing the same. That's why I say revolution has never changed anything or in other words, all the revolutions of history have failed. They promised much, but nothing came out of it.

I don't preach revolution. I am utterly against revolution. My word for the future and for those who are intelligent enough in the present, is rebellion.

What is the difference?

Rebellion is individual action. It has nothing to do with the crowd. Rebellion has nothing to do with politics, power, violence. Rebellion has something to do with changing your consciousness, your silence, your being. It is a spiritual metamorphosis.

Rebellion is a very silent phenomenon that will go on spreading without making any noise and without even leaving any footprints behind. It will move from heart to heart in deep silences, and the day it has reached to millions of people without any bloodshed, just the understanding of those millions of people will change our old animalistic ways. Enlightened Rebellion, Osho, from Rebels and Devils, The Psychology of Liberation, C. S. Hyatt, Ed.