Re: Re-intro
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