Gramsci Redux

[Lisa & Ian Murray]

This is hardly a reduction of the average person to the status of "sheep",
even if he sees day-to-day activity by party members as subordinate for
strategic reasons to the democratic will of party as a whole.  But Gramsci's
continual stress on the idea of "organic" decision-making that ties the
bottom to the top of his military pyramid is a key part of his thinking, I
believe.  It is a rejection of anarchist consensus in action, but is not a
rejection of the contribution of all party members to decision-making.

-- Nathan Newman

how do we get a decision making praxis going that dismantles the whole
repertoire of bottom up/top-down categories [damn positional goods,.......];
and why do they call it the world wide web instead of the world wide
hierarchy?

Ian