[lbo-talk] Green Party 2004

[Shane Taylor]

Doug Henwood asked:
> I think Bookchin also believes that any jurisdiction too
> large to allow face-to-face contact is verboten. That
> sounds like an impossible constraint to me unless you
> want a hunter-gatherer economy to go with it. Why
> direct? Maybe I'm completely ruined by my capitalist
> upbringing, but I don't really want to decide everything
> in a town-hall style gathering. I'm perfectly happy to
> elect representatives so I can go on with the rest of my
> life. Does anyone else here share this fetish of
> directness?

Nope.  That's also a fetish of Participatory Economics, isn't it?

I fwd'd the excerpt, and originally saved it, because his lucid take on
consensus fits with nearly every experience I've had with the process. 
Specifically telling was the point about how a captious minority can
block a majority decision.

-- Shane

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