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                                             March 18, 2022


   "Consensus decision-making" is an extremely
   common in the worlds of artist collectives
   and political activists...  but it has a           https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making#Criticism
   reputation of being something that everyone
   tries, but just once.

   Even if it isn't strictly speaking impossible
   to get it to work, in practice, in our                POMPOUS_ROSE_AGAIN
   experience, it seems very difficult.

   I would not go as far as the conservatives
   in insisting that human nature demands an
   authoritarian hierarchy, but it does seem
   like it only takes a few months of meetings    I can think of a few co-ops
   at a workers co-op to make top-down            that seem stable-- e.g. The
   command-and-control start looking very         Rainbow Grocery in San
   good.                                          Francisco-- most of them
                                                  give up after ten years or
                                                  so-- e.g. "Good Vibrations",
                                                  "The Lusty Lady:...

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