Anarchic Agreements

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Thomas Swann, Alex Prichard, Ruth Kinna: Anarchic Agreements (2022, PM Press)

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2022 by PM Press.

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978-1-62963-978-9
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5 stars (2 reviews)

A new world is possible and not just in our hearts. Anarchic Agreements is a quintessential field guide for the revolution, answering the practical questions often left out of works of political theory and philosophy. How do leaderless groups organize? How might they create constitutions, balance power and write protocols? How do group cultures and institutions maintain coalitions? This urgent and inspiring how-to is the product of more than twenty years of research. Designed explicitly for everyday use, it contains lived examples and text from current horizontally organized constitutions. These documents illustrate the never-ending process of developing community and keeping collaborations alive in the fairest ways possible. Written by dedicated anarchist scholars and organizers, and based on the widely popular Anarchic Agreements pamphlet series, this book facilitates grassroots activism and provides methods to improve and streamline decision making. It is an inspiring celebration of the novel, complex, and flexible constitutions …

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4 stars

Esta es una excelente guía general sobre cuestiones organizativas. Para quienes no hayan tenido mucha experiencia o quienes tengan alguna es bueno comprender los fundamentos de una buena organización, sobre todo si es social o política.

Cuenta con una sección con ejemplos concretos de diferentes movimientos y organizaciones, con preguntas clave y muchas sugerencias útiles.

Muchas veces nos enfrascamos demasiado en aspectos ideales, teóricos o ideológicos, pero siempre es bueno refrescarse con lecturas muy prácticas.

Part of the Missing Manual of How to Human with other Humans while Doing Things

5 stars

It's unbelievable how important this material is — without it, it's almost impossible to escape hierarchy in nominally flat institutions, via the Tyranny of Structurelessness, the Iron Law of Institutions, and other phenomena acculturated by propaganda.

The only thing missing here, and to be fair, I'm sure this is a book topic on its own, is how to actually move an extant organization with perhaps the right idea to actually adopt these things in practice when, of course, is itself an org that one does not have hierarchical control over! Driving adoption, i.e.

It's also worth reading for their collation of anarchist sample constitutions alone — what a collection! IWW, Emma Goldman, Occupy, Öcalan/ Democratic Confederalism, Makhnovists, … 

Major learnings:

  1. Constitutions don't have to be an inherently conservative or regressive; it's just the way that we've been interacting with the specific statist constitutions that makes them so, meaningfully for us, …