• Of the Air (cele/celes)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Oh yes, we watched it and we agree. We have to be very careful otherwise heirarchies can easily form if we aren’t fully commited to making sure they don’t.

    We were part of an ‘anarchist’ group once but we left because two people became the defacto ‘leaders’ and kept telling us that we couldn’t do things without ever explaining what they meant beyond just saying that we couldn’t (in a more specific way but we don’t want to let on should they ever find this).

    Between that and the red tape we don’t really trust most ‘anarchist’ ‘organisations’ and prefer to just get things done ourselves.

    • onesixone@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      We were part of an ‘anarchist’ group once but we left because two people became the defacto ‘leaders’ and kept telling us that we couldn’t do things without ever explaining what they meant beyond just saying that we couldn’t (in a more specific way but we don’t want to let on should they ever find this).

      That sounds like a really shitty experience. I left a (non anarchist) group recently because they tried to hide all the hidden hierarchies / differences in decision making influence, at least it felt to me like that.

      • Of the Air (cele/celes)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        It was in the end, especially because they came in and shat all over the work us and some others had done. It felt pointless at that point.

        Yeah, sneakiarchy (as we call it in polyamorous circles) is the worst.

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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      We were part of an ‘anarchist’ group once but we left because two people became the defacto ‘leaders’ and kept telling us that we couldn’t do things without ever explaining what they meant beyond just saying that we couldn’t (in a more specific way but we don’t want to let on should they ever find this).

      That fucking sucks. Respect for putting yourself out there into the real world. ❤️

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      Thats sad but interesting. Thanks for sharing. I’m part of anarchist groups as well. Its been very hard to even understand it all. I dont read that much but it helped me understand why some groups i’ve been in have built leadership structures. I dont know how to break them yet though. Have you read anarchist theory before?