How each model solves the same problems
Instead of “democracy versus anarchism”, compare the concrete ways collective problems get solved.
| Question | + Model | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| How are decisions made? | Village assemblies and free soviets, regional congresses of peasants, workers and insurgents, and a Military Revolutionary Council acting between congresses. | A stratified random sample of 523 voters deliberated in moderated groups and plenaries and answered questionnaires before and after; no decisions were taken.Sortition / citizens' assembly | |
| How are conflicts resolved? | Unknown | Balanced briefing materials, trained neutral moderators and competing experts structured disagreement. | |
| How are public goods funded? | Agrarian communes on expropriated estates and locally organised schools; supplies for the army were organised from a central depot at Huliaipole. | Privately funded; produced published results, media coverage and a peer-reviewed study. | |
| How is AI used? | Not applicable (1918-1921). | No AI role. | |
| What are the main risks? | War on several fronts; reliance on an army and a charismatic commander; contested accounts of discipline and coercion, mostly from partisan sources.CLM-0157CLM-0888 | Self-selection into attendance; artificial setting; analysis by the method's designers; no institutional uptake. |
This illustrates differences in design; it is not a universal claim about outcomes. Each cell links to mechanisms and the claims behind them.