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Well, from what I'm reading in the page, sociocracy seems more a methodology for organization of people to carry out projects, than a political ideology such as anarchism.
Everything is political I know, but anarchism is more than a set of definitions and rules of organising: it has a set of moral beliefs, it discusses things such as class, it gets into history, it gets into definitions of institutions, it gets into economics... while this sociocracy thing seems more like just a tool to help organizing.
Oh right, I guess I got caught up in recognizing the similarities that I didn't really process how different the context is.
Although I suspect someone who likes the idea of organizing and decision making this way must surely agree with at least some of the anarchist principles. I wonder if the peoplr who worked on defining sociocracy had personal history or interest with anarchism, and just "de-politicized" this idea to make it more palatable for those who grew up being told anarchism is bad. A cursory Google search into Gerard Endenburg and sociocracy didn't turn anything up though.
Interestingly enough, the person who first coined it, Auguste Comte, seems to have wanted it applied to politics though (according to natopedia). It seems he influenced some flavors of anarchism but was not anarchist themselves.