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Quesinberry: Re: Re: Problems with consensus?!
Forum Post, May, 27 2012
Steven Quesinberry
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Understood and agreed. The idea that we should allot "decision making power to the degree that each is affected" is a good organizing principle, but difficult to implement as it entails a lot of agreement about who is involved and ...
Marty: Re: Problems with consensus?!
Forum Post, May, 26 2012
David Marty
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Thanks for your comments. I agree with you regarding the protection of minorities. Any decision making body (work place or OWS type assemblies) should protect its minorities by giving it special prerogatives. However, if by minority we mean thos...
Quesinberry: Problems with consensus?!
Forum Post, May, 26 2012
Steven Quesinberry
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Thanks David and Stephen for posting your conversation. I found David's comments about the nature of consensus to be insightful because the problem he mentions(ie - that of a minority holding a the majority hostage). This is ...
Andrews: Guardian Hatchet Job
Forum Post, May, 25 2012
John Andrews
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Michael The problem with most British Left Intellectuals is that went to either Oxford or Cambridge Universities; home of the Elite. It is difficult to see how one could leave such an institute with radical priorities still intact. Noam Chomsky ...
Street: First paragraph...
Forum Post, May, 24 2012
Paul Street
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...was a mess in the draft that appeared this morning so just shortened and re-wrote it. Apologies to any readers thrown off by that bad beginning; please give it another try now!
Weber:
Forum Post, May, 24 2012
Mark Weber
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In every other area we seek to promote peace by endless escalation in the quantity and destructiveness of weapons, so why not in international relations? For example, in high schools we seek to reduce violence by arming the students. In our cou...
Franco: Coops
Forum Post, May, 24 2012
Veronica Franco
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"Dismantle the system of production for profit rather than production for use." Must change profit motive! Yes! Got it! Thank you! Chomsky always on point with that. 19:51 pretty much breaks down why changing profit motive will be ...
Howe: Out of date
Forum Post, May, 22 2012
Ken Howe
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This article is out of date. The agreement discussed here was massively rejected by the student organizations. The strike has continued, to the point where the government passed draconian anti-student legislation last week. The new law may have ba...
Jones: Fantastic
Forum Post, May, 21 2012
Chris Jones
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I just love this piece. Have just spent much of the day wondering why so many of our friends in Samos are so fearful about taking action and so pessimistic about what we can achieve together. Then I read this. It speaks so strongly to what ...
Rissler: An example for the world
Forum Post, May, 20 2012
Mike Rissler
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While one would hardly know if from the U.S.'s mainstream media (although yes through this website), Venezuela is a world leader and example for the world. Under the leadership of Hugo Chavez, amazing things have been happening in this L...
Adamcik: Escort this sick person out!
Forum Post, May, 19 2012
David Adamcik
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You have to be a sustainer to comment on this. You became a sustainer to trash the site? The least you could do is to come up with an articulate argument against the Parecon proposal.
Burke: All this and More.
Forum Post, May, 19 2012
Richard Burke
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Despite my own strong sympathies for anarchism as an ideal, or long duration goal, I think Mr. Glick is right. We can’t reasonably expect anything to change without an electoral component to our strategy. The problem is that for the last 32 ...
Adamcik: Good Article
Forum Post, May, 18 2012
David Adamcik
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We are on our way there. We just need some positive examples of non-authoritarian workplaces, schools and housing communities. We need more people with these views talking to each another.
Howe: Canada
Forum Post, May, 17 2012
Ken Howe
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Don't forget that Canada's national system started in one small (population-wise) and fairly poor province. Once the rest of the country saw it in action, it was unstoppable.
Reiter: Re: Good to see this noted
Forum Post, May, 17 2012
I.N. Reiter
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I agree to that. As I live in the same region and I´m as well a member of the same party I like to see sb. reporting about it. However it´s sad that we meet on an US-American homepage instead of local meetings. But the main reason for...
Adamcik: Suggestion
Forum Post, May, 16 2012
David Adamcik
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Just a note because this looks like it is an important document. In the first of the "views" section of capitalism: I think you should take off the "in" in the second sentence after "consume."
Howe: Good to see this noted
Forum Post, May, 16 2012
Ken Howe
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The misfortune of the Left has been badly under-reported, at least from the standpoint of those who care about it. I think they are necessary, the Greens and SPD having abandoned so much of what once made them valuable.
Howe: Gosh
Forum Post, May, 15 2012
Ken Howe
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Gosh, you'd think the troika would immediately convert Greek loans to low-interest eurobonds, bring in a package of reforms designed to reduce tax evasion and unemployment while "Germany" and co. would immediately commit to economic ...
Howe: A few things to do with that?
Forum Post, May, 15 2012
Ken Howe
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I'll just pitch in then: corporations are hoarding cash because, what with all the unemployed, there's no demand. Why stick your neck out? Productivity continues to increase, which, because the economy's not actually growing (1.7% does...
Howe: Incredibly unjust electoral law
Forum Post, May, 14 2012
Ken Howe
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The "first past the post" system is the most widely used electoral system in the world. Canada's current government holds an absolute majority after winning less than 40% of the popular vote; an earlier majority was elected with 38.5...
