Blocking Progress Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement Resource Type: Article Published: 1983 Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
On Organization Resource Type: Article Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
One Vote for Democracy Consensus vs. democracy Resource Type: Article Published: 1986 Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
Rosa Luxemburg on the Socialist Civic Virtues Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 One of Rosa Luxemburg's most striking and least well-understood contributions was to draw on the classical "republican" notion of "civic virtue," as a vital part of her analysis of working-class democracy.
Traite du Savoir-Vivre for the Occupy Wall Street Generations Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Once upon a time, twenty thousand people descended on Wall Street, the capitol of capital, occupied it nonviolently, and won exactly what they demanded. This is not a fairy tale. It really happened. This is the story of how it happened.