On Jul 17, 2006, at 5:20 PM, Gar Lipow wrote:
> Depends on what you mean by "hierarchy " and "spokescouncil" model.
> You don't think a microchip firm could not make it's major decision
> through elected councils - a large firm wide council for major
> decisions, smaller councils at various levels for smaller decisions,
> and various types specialists for day to day decisions firmly under
> the control of appropriate councils?
That's not completely unlike a capitalist firm, is it?
But I don't think you can have consensus decisionmaking in a large- scale enterprise. You'd need executives with some degree of power to make big decisions, though god knows how things would evolve over time. My impression is that anarchists don't like representative democracy very much, but that's exactly the kind of model I'm talking about in the economic realm.
Doug