[lbo-talk] OWS Demands working group: jobs for all!

Bhaskar Sunkara bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 11:02:50 PDT 2011


What? The argument is the argument that we were discussing in this thread, an ideological opposition to making demands on the state. The possible structural problems of "consensus" (versus majority decision making) in allowing a small minority to potentially block a decision like this -- what Richard brings up -- is a real concern.

2011/10/20 Ferenc Molnar <ferenc_molnar at hotmail.com>


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> leninstombblog wrote: "Unless there are Tea Party infiltrators,
> the argument against demands on the state certainly sounds like an anarchist
> one. This is where consensus decision-making could potentially reach its
> limits, if a small number of people were able to block this demand."
>
>
> FM: What anarchist? What argument? Please produce an anarchist with an
> argument from OWS or this is all speculation.
>
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