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One reason why self governance is always coming under scrutiny is because of the fact that there's no legitimacy backing each and every decision made in the betterment of a community or self ruled society. Communalism was the first attempt at self governance and Julius Nyerere who was the originator of the first concept of communalism felt that Sharing of Community wealth and resource would make for an equal society where resources won't be mismanaged. Nevertheless communalism from my assessment couldn't hit the peak because it was more of an economic system rather than a political system.
Truth is, when humans are governed on a leash, it's totally destructive and so also when they're left to self governance without a singular authoritative entity, it's also a disaster. And that's why systems like democracy came into the limelight. Democracy created a form of balance and this was never the intentions of the Greek when they set out with establishing direct democracy or what I'll call an advanced communalism the truth is, resources created and equally shared in a society is perfect but the fact that there isn't accountability is where issues might arise.
Most of the earliest systems like fascism and feudalism aimed at total control of the economic system and manpower as well as ignoring the role of the common man, and it was more of it more than the sophisticated attempt at politics and how the right enactment of laws would guide the economic aspect and how a nation can thrive from creating and maintaining its own wealth. Truth is, wealth making and wealth management will require a particular framework or structure to function properly and that's why laws, due process and procedures are needed.
The main reason for this post is that I feel self governance is possibly or arguably the best system. However unless the system can be tweaked and subjected to a form of soverignty from a entity that's largely elected by the public it'll be still be bound to fail or reach a certain peak so as to thrive. Many might say democracy has this but this isn't true, democracy sometimes can become too politicalised and corruption will prevent the society from having equal access to the wealth which it's created.
I do however feel that there will never be a perfect system because it's complex and rather difficult to govern people and still maintain an economically balanced society or state. There are many things that determines success when it comes to governance and no one's got this completly aligned. Every system has it's ills and so does the almighty democracy as well. In recent times there's been tweaks like representative democracy and capitalist democracy but there's still weaknesses to these systems.
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