[lbo-talk] Graber on consensus

[Carrol Cox]

> 
> 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