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."
Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat Resource Type: Book Published: 1986 Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
The National Question Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg Resource Type: Book Published: 1976 In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
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.
Onward Humanist Soldiers! Arming Ourselves with Logic Resource Type: Article Published: 1999 A humanist take on the religious debate over whether or not "God" should be removed from the Canadian constitution.