Writing by Lou Hälg
Essays and notes
These essays take up particular questions raised by the manifesto. Each can also be read on its own.
Current posts
The essays.
5 posts
What Deluism does not yet know
A democratic council may distribute a shortage more fairly. It cannot vote it away. The unresolved questions behind the institutional proposal.
Community is infrastructure
An open door offers little if you cannot get to the meeting. On the conditions of belonging and the right to keep your distance.
Freedom needs a foundation
Being allowed to say no does not mean you can afford to. Why material security matters to freedom, and why the state providing it must also face limits.
When emergency powers must end
A time limit offers little protection if the same leadership can renew it indefinitely. A thought experiment about effective emergency powers with enforceable limits.
How a manifesto can remain open to correction
A new version number does not explain a change. What a political proposal should disclose when it takes an objection seriously.