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Bookchin’s definition of freedom != whatever most people associate with anarchism. Bookchin advocates for direct democracy for decision making.

• zozbot234 5y ago
  The problem is that hierarchy-based decision making is also significantly more effective than the usual implementations of direct democracy, even on the "confederate" basis Bookchin advocates for. At best, we might consider delegative democracy with "liquid" recall, which effectively merges elements of both direct and representative democracy. Perhaps it could be enhanced by sortition, i.e. actual direct democracy among a randomly-chosen sample of the population, and forms of voluntary deliberation such as prediction/betting markets.
  • int_19h 5y ago
    Authoritarian decision making can be argued to be significantly more effective than democratic one in general. The question is whether that efficiency is worth it.
    • zozbot234 5y ago
      That's of course possible, but not really the common case.