Timeline for How do anarchist decision models scale?
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| Jan 16, 2023 at 6:48 | comment | added | gerrit | @StuartF I'm open to alternative methods. | |
| Jan 14, 2023 at 15:09 | comment | added | Stuart F | Most anarchist systems (and other syndicalist worker-controlled systems, worker cooperatives, etc) have relied to some extent on elected representatives - e.g. anarchist armies like POUM had elected officers. Are you supposing an anarchist system must be a consensual direct democracy, or does the question include alternative methods of organisation? | |
| Oct 1, 2022 at 18:08 | answer | added | Tyler Mc | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 16:25 | comment | added | einpoklum | The point is perhaps less the exact details of the scaling but more the built-in allowance and legitimization of dissent, minority action etc. | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 1:55 | answer | added | Samuel Russell | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 5, 2014 at 17:44 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPolitics/status/507947385415553024 | ||
| Dec 7, 2012 at 23:05 | comment | added | Kevin Peno | @gerrit I did say "chose not to bite" ;) In reality, a human being is like any other animal and will do whatever it takes to survive at their definition of life. | |
| Dec 7, 2012 at 23:01 | comment | added | gerrit | @KevinPeno Perhaps, but it's more complicated than that, because it also lies in human nature to help each other; we're social animals, or we wouldn't have survived our first couple of hundred thousand years on Earth. So I find the wolf/lamb-analogy too much oversimplified to be of much use in this context. | |
| Dec 7, 2012 at 22:29 | comment | added | Kevin Peno | In human society, everyone is the predator. Some just choose not to, or unaware how to, bite first. | |
| Dec 7, 2012 at 9:46 | comment | added | gerrit | Although it's true that some people are good at convincing others, that doesn't make mass decision making fiction, it just makes "equal power for all" utopian, but possibly still a utopia that is approached more closely in anarchist decision making than in other decision models. I don't think the wolf/lamb analogy holds for human societies, as basic human interests don't vary nearly as much as in a predator/pray relation. And whether the Spanish Revolution would have been successful is hard to say, as they weren't exactly left alone by the powers around (who feared the possibility of success). | |
| Dec 6, 2012 at 20:56 | history | asked | gerrit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |