Organization and hierarchy
Why they are not the same There are a lot of negative opinions of anarchy that I’ve often heard phrased as follows:
Anarchists “can’t get anything done.” They don’t organize because “they don’t believe in hierarchy.” They don’t have anyone in charge because everyone is in charge, or there’s no such thing as being in charge, “so there is no direction.” [1]
An important takeaway here is the assumption made about organization, about structure: that it is inherently hierarchical.
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