Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Enacting the Impossible (On Consensus Decision Making)

Don't agree with everything but a good piece. It must be said however that there has long been an argument, one which I favor, against consensus decision-making in the anarchist movement. If you are interested in the topic here are three essays I recommend. The first two are by Murray Bookchin whom, I confess, I adore. His ideas are seminal and have shaped my own.

http://www.geocities.com/collectivebook/bookchin.html

http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/bookchin/sp000515.txt

http://libcom.org/organise/general/articles/decision-making-and-organisational-form.php



Graeber's article here:

http://occupywallst.org/article/enacting-the-impossible/