we have anarchist groups here like Black Rose that are explicitly platformist, adopting something that in practice looks a lot like a party structure with democratic centralism and the delegation of authority by the organization to individuals. which way they'll tend once the full crisis develops is still up in the air but for now the situation isn't quite so black and white, even on questions of organization.
yea, that's the primary criticism they get from other anarchist groups, that they're really just leninist in practice, while ML/M groups regard them as an oddity as they don't pursue an explicitly Marxist line (though again, in practice it's hard to tell the difference as their actual praxis looks a hell of a lot like a Maoist mass line). my suspicion is that they'll end up a weird splinter group of some larger Maoist formation, but who knows. for the time being, they don't work with anyone but themselves, much like the Maoist groups they most closely resemble, so it will be interesting to see how it shakes out.
but yes, I agree with you that it's likely the space between anarchist and leninist lines won't hold through an actual crisis. and the people occupying this middle space will gravitate towards those two poles.
we have anarchist groups here like Black Rose that are explicitly platformist, adopting something that in practice looks a lot like a party structure with democratic centralism and the delegation of authority by the organization to individuals. which way they'll tend once the full crisis develops is still up in the air but for now the situation isn't quite so black and white, even on questions of organization.
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yea, that's the primary criticism they get from other anarchist groups, that they're really just leninist in practice, while ML/M groups regard them as an oddity as they don't pursue an explicitly Marxist line (though again, in practice it's hard to tell the difference as their actual praxis looks a hell of a lot like a Maoist mass line). my suspicion is that they'll end up a weird splinter group of some larger Maoist formation, but who knows. for the time being, they don't work with anyone but themselves, much like the Maoist groups they most closely resemble, so it will be interesting to see how it shakes out.
but yes, I agree with you that it's likely the space between anarchist and leninist lines won't hold through an actual crisis. and the people occupying this middle space will gravitate towards those two poles.