[lbo-talk] Graber on consensus

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Feb 27 10:40:31 PST 2013



>
> The only problem with the picture you paint is that consensus has been the
> fundamental process for collective decision making for most cultures
> throughout history. This makes it rather hard to describe it as
> psychopathological or neoliberal.

Yes. And as Gar indicated in his initial post, it makes no sense at all to discuss "consensus" in the abstract. It only means whatever it means in any given situation, and you can neither generalize from nor abstract from that unending list of contingent occurrences. "Consensus" as an abstract noun has no content.

Carrol



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