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"For Workers' Power" by Maurice Brinton

"Parecon: Life After Capitalism" by Michael Albert

"After Capitalism" by David Schweickart

"Principles of Syndicalism" by Tom Brown

I was just thinkng about the traditional anarchist decision making structure, i.e. federation of local groups where.

1)Authoritiarian elitists state that we are to obey the benevolent wisdom of those who are more inelligent and enlightened than ourselves.

2) However, many fools think themselves intelligent and enlightened, and therefore how are we to discriminate between fools and enlightened leaders, if we are so foolish ourselves?

Argument from slavery

1) Liberty is the opposite of slavery
2) Slavery can be defined as a non-voluntary situation where one person has the ability to command obedience of another, and there is a clear, non-reciprocal division between those who command and those who obey.

I came across an interesting scheme a few days ago:

http://www.geocities.com/theskillspool/index.html

I have just been reading about two different historical strands if the cooperative movement: cooperative federalism and cooperative individualism.

Cooperative federalism argues that we create consumer cooperatives - businesses collectively owned and democratically governed by those who consume their products, with membership open to all.