Since you guys are so big on criticizing anarchists for lacking an understanding of the drawbacks of consensus, could you name a drawback of majority decision making?
In other words, please imagine for me the way the failure could also happen through your preferred method.
> 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>
>
>>
>> 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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