Its not hierarchy vs nonhierarchy. It's not even top-down vs horizontal. There are implicit power imbalances in every governing form. Its being governed vs being ungovernable.

To be ungovernable means to reject the idea that electing - for example - an operations coordinator will solve more problems than it will create... or to reject the idea that its okay to solve some logistical problems while creating other problems of labor distribution.

A common argument against being ungovernable in this way is that these positions naturally occur, often with an unofficial coordinating body doing most of the work and holding most of the power. And this is a true problem.

But i dont think that the answer is to instill more structure, more government. Rather, we need work on undoing the habits we have learned from greater society and discontinue our repetition of them in our radical spaces.

This takes effort, this takes letting projects dwindle and even seemingly fail - if we're using capitalist standards to measure success.

to be continued, probably

the fringes (like me w disabilities) for roled like these to exist bc those occupying those roles dont necessarily grasp our needs and there isnt a large enough base to inspire action towards change

The question is, how can anarchists mobilize mass revolutionary action

We first have to address capitalisms domination of human life and its effect on human nature

The things that capitalism uses to suppress unrest in the “outside world”: patriarchy, white supremacy, authoritarianism, all threaten to become present in the governing of radical spaces

So how do you keep efforts that coalesce along agreed upon principles but that don’t have any other formal structure from collapsing

It is important to develop specific agreements as a pretext for joining an organizing space. While this approach is treated as authoritarian in US anarchist circles, its commonplace in other countries.

Having a clear set of unifying points makes organizing around these points possible even if it results in smaller (tho likely more numerous) groups.

... what else? i'm not sure yet.

So what’s an insurrectionary anarchist to do? Insert yourself into other spaces where you are in direct with non-anarchists of the exploited classes, as they engage in organizing and struggle for their survival.

Learn from their organizing as well, even if you don’t agree with the form.

In these organizations, insurrectionary & revolutionary anarchists should advocate for our positions, even when we are in the minority (as I have been trying to do within TANC).

Just because i wanna connect these two threads https://twitter.com/lollipop_bandit/status/1191389519435587584