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Ralf Burnicki Anarchist Consensual Democracy Transcription of a video by O. Ressler, recorded in Bielefeld, Germany, 29 min., 2005 We are here in front of the civilian sentry in west Bielefeld. According to my grandfather, who was in the communist resistance movement, the sentry and the square in front of it were used for communist gatherings during the Weimar era and also shortly before Hitler took over power. These communist ngs then fell victim to violent acts from both the police and the fascists. I encountered phenomena of dominance quite early on. One of these encounters was during my apprenticeship as a locksmith. I was confronted with hierarchies within the firm, the behavior of the journeymen, but also the entire atmosphere that went along with such an apprenticeship. I wasn't really inspired to adapt to this system of dominance. So I had my first confrontation with dominance and power, read books and asked myself if a "just" society were possible. At some point I stumbled across anarchist writings. I founded Edition Blackbox together with Michael Halfbrodt, a Bielefeld writer. It is a libertarian press publishing anarcho-poetry, libertarian and anarchist literature, and political texts. In the more than 300 pages of "Anarchismus und Konsens" (2002), I answered the question of the anarchist principle of consensus based on "how?", "why?" and "what can it achieve?" Anarchy and consensus is a very broad theme and as a whole does not ...