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I recently got sent this page on sociocracy. I noticed it sounded a lot like how I've envisioned an anarchist society, as I've described here on hexbear. I found it weird that it doesn't mention anarchism, but perhaps they just are using the term "self governance" to refer to anarchism but not by name (due to its stigmatization). It specifically tried to differentiate consent versus consensus as decision making processes, but honestly I thought consensus already worked how they described consent to work. So if that's the case, I guess I'm actually a fan of consent decision making, not consensus. I was wondering if any leftists (esp anarchists) on here could vouch for their interpretation and clarify if you find it a feasible and good form of anarchist society.

I'm also wondering how a society that's purely online would work like this. Like a video game or something that teaches anarchist values by just being like a survival game where cooperation is clearly beneficial but there's no built in party or guild system, so people form anarchist organizations instead. But I'd be concerned about people forming hierarchies within those organizations anyways, and not allow players to come and go as per free association. That's perhaps off topic from the first part of this post, but I'd be interested in hearing thoughts on how a game might encourage players, purely through gameplay, to form anarchist organizations.

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[–] real@hexbear.net 1 points 5 days ago

I've been curious about your second question for a long time as well.