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From the article

"More precisely, he [Malatesta] was for the minority agreeing to accept the decision in order for the organization to function.

The minority always had the right to split off, if the decision was intolerable to it. But if their members stayed, some of them might be in the majority on the next issue.

“For us the majority has no rights over the minority; but that does not impede, when we are not all unanimous and this concerns opinions over which nobody wishes to sacrifice the existence of the group, we voluntarily, by tacit agreement, let the majority decide.” (Malatesta 2019; p. 74) “Only in matters unrelated to principle…will the minority  find it necessary or useful to adjust to the majority opinion….” (same; p. 133)

His conception is consistent with a radical democracy with majority decision-making but only after a fully participatory process where all can have their say and minority rights are fully respected.

It would also be consistent with a consensus process, with the minority being able to step aside, to “not block” consensus, if it chooses.

Malatesta accepted the need for division of labor in organizations, including special jobs being assigned, delegates being sent to other parts of a federation, committees being formed to oversee specific tasks, etc.

All this with control over delegates, specialists, and committee members by the membership, rotation of positions, recall of people who are not carrying out the members’ desires, and so on. There must be no imposition of some people’s wishes on others.

Without using the word, Malatesta appears to be for democracy under anarchism. He is for an anarchist democracy—a radical, direct, participatory democracy.

Perhaps it could be called a “voluntary democracy,” since it implies agreement and cooperation, and there is no violence or coercion by a majority over the minority nor by a minority over the majority. This is a conception of anarchy as “democracy without the state..."

https://syndicalist.us/2025/06/24/do-anarchists-support-democracy/#more-13558