David Gerard wrote:
And those who think this is a bad thing, an avoidable
thing or
something we should pretend doesn't happen are blinding themselves and
heading for trouble. A hierarchy will happen whether you like it or
not, because humans are involved; politics starts with two or more
people in a room, anywhere. Pretending it's not there makes it
poisonous, not nonexistent.
If you don't have a structure then one will form out of your sight and
bite you in the arse. "If the movement is to move beyond these
elementary stages of development, it will have to disabuse itself of
some of its prejudices about organisation and structure. There is
nothing inherently bad about either of these. They can be and often
are misused, but to reject them out of hand because they are misused
is to deny ourselves the necessary tools to further development. We
need to understand why 'structurelessness' does not work."
It happens repeatedly in many circumstances. People don't participate
because they see an organization as "political" in whatever the worst
sense of that word may be. By failng to participate they allow the
politics to happen, and they become part of the problem.
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