@antiall3s@kolektiva.social2024-04-02 13:33:54
"Often decentralized movements require elaboration of complex structures to make decentralized decision-making possible, like the spokescouncils and assemblies used during anti-globalization protests, in Occupy encampments, and Global South movements. They also require naming, recognizing, and if necessary, dismantling the informal rules we operate by—whether it’s deference to elders or people with more experience, anti-Blackness, colorism, patriarchy, or the ableist notion that the people who do the most work should have the most power."
Too many leftist projects are do-ocracies, which fundamentally is an ableist notion. Because not everyone is able to put in the same amount of work, which does not mean they should have less power.
Excerpt of Andrea J. Ritchie - Practicing New Worlds: #Decentralisation #Democracy
