[Wikimedia-l] [tangential] Why voting is evil

[Fred Bauder]

> On 07/02/2013 11:13 AM, David Gerard wrote:
>> He claims this is how he did the Pirate Party, so you appear to be
>> claiming that a successful minor political party may work in practice
>> but can't possibly work in theory.
>
> I suppose.  :-)  I'm surprised it did work; if it actually did it this
> way.  That said, I'm not familiar enough with how a political party
> works to estimate how that would have impacted this kind of organization.
>
> What we are, ultimately, is a commons.  Without a process by which we
> /can/ limit what others can do (something he advocates against) we are
> doomed to the tragedy others have written about more eloquently than I
> can.
>
> In other words, while voting may not be the best way to manage a common
> garden, the ability to prevent someone from salting the ground -- no
> matter how convinced they are that this will make for better tasting
> vegetables -- is required.  I'm surprised something along those lines
> doesn't apply to a political party (where, for instance image, is an
> important shared resource.  What would the Pirate Party have done if
> someone had started to bomb busses in their name without some mechanism
> of exclusion or a process to decide whether that was an apropriate thing
> to do for the party?)
>
> -- Marc

Well, how would Marx feel? in the light of history.

Fred