Does Anarchy Need Leaders? | Andrewism
Does Anarchy Need Leaders? | Andrewism
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"Leadership is a Role, Not an Identity"
"You may guide, teach, or warn, but you are not the guide, the teacher, or the prophet."
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This is a very long-winded way of saying what should be blatantly obvious - there is an extremely evident distinction to be drawn between leaders and bosses.
Nothing screams unseriousness quite like peddling the idea of "leaderless" organisation.
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Nothing screams unseriousness quite like peddling the idea of "leaderless" organisation.
Disagree. Not everything needs leaders.
Occupy Wall Street, Fuck Cars etc. These movements didn’t have leaders but did quite well.
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Occupy Wall Street,
There were lots of people playing leadership roles during Occupy. Lots.
Antifa? Lots.
BLM? Lots.
Every goddamn resistance movement in the history of human civilisation? Positively a shitload.
Stop being unserious.
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They don't need to be formal leaders to be leaders. In a cooperative video game it's pretty normal to have everyone just milling about until one or two people take charge of organizing. You might have one person herd a party together while another informs on strategies and organizes people into roles. They're often not even the leader of the party as designated by the game; it's the social dynamic of deferring to someone who seems to know what they're doing that matters.
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Usually I'd post this to !breadtube@slrpnk.net, but unfortunately slrpnk will be down for a while, and figured I'd share it here in the meantime.
Is this community only for higher level discussions? I think for people newer to anarchism it's a good encapsulation of the concept it tackles.
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Nothing screams unseriousness quite like peddling the idea of "leaderless" organisation.
Lol. Lmao even
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I think this is a great video. I'll show it to friends who got the idea of anarchism from me but cant really grasp it further. This is but another brick in that building but a good one imo.
Two things make it a little problematic at times. I think experience bears a lot of weight in our current society so that it is both a burden weighing down on people when it comes to make good decisions and a concept people grasp more quickly. I think this makes it needful of more discussion and explanation.
The other thing is dominance. From anarchist practice, i have learned that new groups sometimes try to subdue themselves to a leadership figure, fueling bad patterns and without enough experience in this kind of group, it can lead to bad outcomes. One of these outcomes was new people coming in and trying to oppose the perceived leader instead of the apparently flawed implementation of anarchy. This led to confrontation and exclusion of the person, leaving the group in a worse situation that it was, although everything stayed the same.
Things like this are what I would love to learn about from other groups. Does anyone know resources for that?
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