----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe R. Golowka" <joeG at ieee.org>
"Democratic agreements"?!? There's no democracy in this, it's a proposal for your faction to impose it's will on the rest of the movement. How do you propose to structure and control these peace police? Who makes to decisions on what rules to enforce, how to enforce them, when, etc.? The spokescouncil method will see someone blocking consensus. Furthermore, there's a genuine danger of the peace police usurping the power of the spokescouncils (or whatever you put in their place). If your peace cops decide to impose different rules, who's to stop them? Who watches the watchers?
The kinds of strategies you advocate are responsible for the failure to end capitalism in the 20th century.
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No wonder anarchists have been so popular at galvanizing collective action over the past century.
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Ian