- Beyond the Abdication of Power
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Presents an argument against the views expressed by Kokopeli and Lakey in Leadership For Change. Raises thought provoking issues it raises and demonstrates situations and assumptions under which consensus is not appropriate.
- 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."
- Building United Judgement
A handbook for consensus decision making
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
Describes the techniques and skills which groups can apply to make the principles of consensus work effectively.
- A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street
The Tangled Purse Strings
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Undemocratic movements are vulnerable to being taken over by a vocal minority or a chraismatic individual.
- The collective decides...
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
The obsession with 'process politics' leads to an obsession with all aspects of internal structure and its working. As a result, the collective can often lose sight of its larger political objectives and the primacy of the form of organisation over the political objectives it was set up to meet. This often occurs in two stages. At the outset the collective process is regarded as equally important to whatever political purposes the group might have. Later the process itself often comes to be seen as of primary importance
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
- Consensus decision-making
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
- Consensus Decision Making: An Analysis of the Literature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
Includes a look at historical interest in consensus, an overview of research with critiques, and recommendations for future research. Brings together most of the current empirical findings in research about consensus.
- Consensus decision-making at NATO
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
All NATO decisions are made by consensus, after discussion and consultation among member countries.
- Consensus - Decision-Making: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
- Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
- Decisions By Consensus: A Study Of The Quaker Method
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Condensed from a 1952 thesis describing consensus as practiced by the 57th St. Friends Meeting of Chicago. Describes how consensus operates and what makes it work.
- Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
- Fair Vote Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
Representing over 55,000 Canadians, Fair Vote Canada is a grassroots, multi-partisan citizens' campaign for voting reform. We promote the introduction of an element of proportional representation into elections for all levels of government and throughout civil society.
In a democracy, every voter's voice should be heard in Parliament. The share of votes the electorate cast for a party's candidates should match the share of seats a party is awarded, so majority governments will have a mandate from a true majority of voters. Those are defining principles of Proportional Representation, and those are the principles Fair Vote Canada endorses.
- Home!
A Bioregional Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
- It Ain't the Meeting Its The Motion
Resource Type: Article
A guide to conducting productive and inclusive meetings in the context of social change.
- A Manual for Group Facilitators
The Center for Conflict Resolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
The values, assumptions and techniques of group facilitation. Especially useful to people planning workshops. Includes sections on communication, conflict, problem solving, what can go wrong and what to do about it, and many other relevant topics.
- National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2015
Greece and thd debt crisis
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Our spotlight this issue is on the debt crisis facing Greece. To understand the crisis, one has to look beyond the mainstream media to alternative sources of information. We've done that, with articles that set out to analyze the nature of the debt burden that has been imposed on the citizens of so many countries, not just Greece. Also: celebrating Grace Lee Bogg’s 100th birthday.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
Back to School
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
- Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
- Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
A Reply to the International Socialist Organization
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
- The Socialist Register 1968
Volume 5: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1968
- The Theology of Consensus
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Consensus decision-making has dominated social movements for forty years. Let’s try something different. Outside of small-group settings, consensus process is unwieldy, off-putting, tiresome, and ineffective. Many inclusive, accountable alternative methods are available for making decisions democratically. If we want to change the world, let's pick ones that work.
- 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.
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a "structureless" group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved.
- What is Consensus?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
Consensus evolved from the meeting process of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It is a non-violent way for people to relate to each other as and in a group. Successful use of a consensus process depends on people understanding the idea and wanting to use it.
- Why Consensus Decision-making Won't Work for Grassroots Unionism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Wetzel contrasts consensus decision-making with democratic decision-making to explain why the latter is more suited to activist groups.
- Wobblies & Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
- Working Collectively
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A handbook for people wishing to form collectives, or established collectives seeking solutions to problems such as power imbalances, conflict meditation, and setting priorities.
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