"Central "Planning is really Holistic Planning.
Joe R. Golowka
joeG at ieee.org
Sun Jan 20 12:50:14 PST 2002
> Joe R. Golowka wrote:
>
> > > So who will have the power to prevent bureaucracies from reappearing
once
> >we have
> >> anarchism?
> >
> >Everyone.
>
> And you don't see that as a problem?
No. Most of human history was lived like that. The Spanish & Ukrainian
revolutions also show that it can work.
> If everyone is responsible, is anyone?
Everyone is responsible for their own actions.
> No division of labor in your utopia?
Not between decision makers and implementers, no. Other divisions of labor
are fine, so long as they're voluntary.
> No mechanism of authority with accountability?
No hierarchical authority, period.
> When I hear things like this, I think
> of Nancy Folbre's critique of the Albert/Hahnel parecon model - it's
> a vision of life as one long student council meeting.
You don't have to go to any meetings if you don't want to.
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