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i agree that democracy has precious little to do with anarchy or living "in radically decentralized face-to-face ways," but people will start to get lost when the issue of scale is brought into the discussion. as soon as you grow beyond the face to face and the decentralized, folks will quite naturally begin to worry about the question of Justice and how that relates to decision making (which is a distraction, because, for me at least, *carrying out* decisions justly is more important than how people arrive at those decisions). when you move beyond affinity into the elective, you move into the realm of ideology and mythology, where people tend to talk past each other. in such situations, it might make tactical sense to invoke and utilize direct democracy and [near] consensus as effective tools for streamlining deliberative processes. this is, unsurprisingly, a sadly overlooked aspect of the typical anarchist organizational question.