I'm saying, how many times are we going to have our leadership comped by the CIA until we learn to organize without concentrating power in a few hands?
This is not even sectarian, anarchists are also bad at letting informal hierarchies and de facto leaders slide. "Leadership" is a bourgeois concept and I will die on that hill, because if we can't quit organizing ourselves as mirror images of the capitalist powers, we won't succeed.
The idea of "leader" is like the idea of "generalized intelligence"- it's not a real thing, and only kept in consideration by huge amounts of propaganda.
For all this talk about how "you have to have strong leadership", look how much American communist parties have gone wrong with exactly that.
what, you don't think the Big Strong Leader Brower didn't lead to a better CPUSA? /s
I'm saying, how many times are we going to have our leadership comped by the CIA until we learn to organize without concentrating power in a few hands?
This is not even sectarian, anarchists are also bad at letting informal hierarchies and de facto leaders slide. "Leadership" is a bourgeois concept and I will die on that hill, because if we can't quit organizing ourselves as mirror images of the capitalist powers, we won't succeed.
The idea of "leader" is like the idea of "generalized intelligence"- it's not a real thing, and only kept in consideration by huge amounts of propaganda.