> 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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
