It scares the shit out of me, but I want to commit this year to learning what it means to bring healthy leadership to anarchism. It seems to me like just a powerfully cohesive exertion and consistent exposition of a maximal anarchism, in oneself and in social existence.
I will need your help like anyone would. This challenges me to overcome my vicious PTSD, but the rewards will be precisely that which heals me—the greatest among them is to see you finding new ways to practice anarchism yourself
Leadership in anarchism is self-suspicious, and ultimately self-defeating, or at least self-replacing. It is exerting power toward anti-power goals by spreading it undeniably & automatically, rather than withholding it. This requires careful measure of your input anticipating all modulations, knowing you have no control over the outcomes. This is why anarchists build the world we want out of what it should be made of, right now; prefiguration. This is more than just a revolutionary vanguard.
I am really struggling to find the words for what I'm trying to do, but if anything I've been agonizing over in my writing resonates with you and you're hungry for revolution, if you want to do something right now, I hope I can earn your collaboration in these next steps I see before us.
If the thing to do is to convene a group for these purposes and give it a name, I have some ideas.
I really do mean this is my idea of leadership. I absolutely can't "do" it alone. That makes no sense to me!
