REQUIRED READING:
the tyranny of structurelessness,
by jo freeman
@h I think you'd really enjoy this ^ if you haven't already read it
@gc Sorry, I missed the link?
@gc Just skimmed through it. I think I mostly agree. Fast fordward to the article conclusions:
Delegation, Accountability, Distribution, Allocation, Rotation, Diffusion, Access.
If you take of each of these tenets, or basic principles, you come back to the same I was saying earlier.
You can't get all these at once without both technical and political competence.
@h while I think that setting up an organization in a way that promotes and cultivates those qualities among its members takes technical and political competence, participating in such an organization does not.
@gc It works for a while, and then the people who do the actual work leave in disgust.
I've seen this happen countless times.