Hey, I saw your comment when this post was made and put Desert on my to-read list. I finally read it all last night and holy shit, I think it's going to be extremely influential in informing my own views and approaches to the future. I likely will still be in favor of at least attempts at democratic centralism alongside the decentralization/self-sufficiency espoused by anarchists, but this has changed the exact nature of those aspirations and it's tempered my dreams of a global proletarian revolution with some pragmatism (at least I hope). I also think there is a strong argument for left unity/solidarity in the face of ecological collapse and the subsequent collapse of the transformative/utopian predictions most of our Sects make. Idk just wanted to say thanks for recommending this and I'd be super interested in other readings you'd recommend (I've only really read a little bit of Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Bookchin on the anarchist side of theory)