Michael Walzer’s “Town meetings and Workers’ Control”

“What touches all should be decided by all.” This is a recurring theme in Michael Walzer’s article “Town meetings and Workers’ Control,” in which he believes that decisions should reflect the views of everyone that it affects. “Much of what is considered ‘private’ life in liberal societies ought to be subject to public control.” He argues that democracy requires workers control of firms. Walzer’s main argument states, that for any authoritative decision that seriously affects others, there should be a subset of those affected, who should be able to authorize the decision, make the decision or approve it. The people who makeup the division should be those who are in that association, which make the decision possible or necessary. To explicate his argument, Walzer explains how a process of decision making by officials can have a dramatic outcome that can result in affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Further explaining, Walzer invents a stor...