What is the delegate system, and how does it function?
Within any institution or organisation, day-to-day tasks have to be carried out in order that it functions. In a union, for example, correspondence and inquiries have to be responded to, dues have to be collected and divided up, publications have to be produced, and so on. Such tasks imply a certain amount of responsibility. In traditional unions, branches of government, workplaces and other organisations and institutions dominated by power elites and heirarchal structures of decision-making, organisational and administrative tasks are carried out by politicians, bureaucrats, bosses, managers and others separated from the mass of the people. Where decisions are made in the name of the people, as with so-called representative democracy, once the so-called representatives are in power, they are beyind the reach of those they are purported to represent, and can break as many promises and sell out their principles as often as they like for the next several years, until the next election ro
