[WS:] My reaction is mixed. There are some valid points there, but these guys' anti--big--organization pitch is missing the mark altogether. It is not corporations per se, or public administration per se , but the political parties and their selling of patronage that is the root cause of the problem. In order to function as such, the political parties must make the delivery of government services contingent on paying the tribute aka "political contributions." This excludes all but those who are in a position to pay large sums of money.
Even George Washington warned about the danger political parties to democratic governance:
"the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it." http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp
As I see it, the main strategic objective ought to be a radical rearrangement of the political party system, complete with an overhaul of the electoral system. This objective may attract support from libertarians, Christians and others who otherwise would not support anything coming from the left.
Wojtek