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> See, from my perspective, democracy isn't a very good form of governance, and I don't understand why it should be applied as an end in and of itself in every
by guerrilla 4y ago
> See, from my perspective, democracy isn't a very good form of governance, and I don't understand why it should be applied as an end in and of itself in every area of life. This is in relation to co-ops, but also to the recent "democratization" drive in general.
Because of autonomy: The only people making a decision should be the ones effected by it.
- kqr 4y agoIn other words, if everyone did the radical thing and asserted that they cannot be threatened until they do something they don't want to do, democracy is the only thing that could possibly work. Anything that's not democracy ultimately rests on threatening people into compliance. Often implicitly ("be a team player and take this third overtime in the month because I'm under pressure from upper management"), sometimes explicitly ("I call the shots on hiring and firing, so you want to stay on good footing with me").