glassfembot:

One of the concepts I really love within anarchism is the idea of developing systems, including hierarchies, as needed and dissolving them when they’ve finished or no longer serve their purpose. I love the idea of a heterogeneous society and I love the idea of systems of management that problem solving being highly dynamic and adaptive.

I see the problems of entrenched systems becoming exploited everywhere. Not just within capitalist modes of production, management and governance, but within queer and social justice communities as social rules and practices, within socialist states.

Look at the way callout culture has become a tool of abuse, exploitation and punitive justice. Look at how Lenin’s idealism created a system of unmitigated power in the hands of a man like Stalin.

Static systems tend to become moralists in and of themselves. They’re good because they were created to serve some (ostensibly) good purpose. But so often we forget the purpose and the system itself becomes the moral good. That’s how so many people view the law; something is moral justified because it’s legals, something is unjustified because it’s illegal, and justice is served when the law has been applied.

Imagine a world where we were forced to consider the purpose and act accordingly, rather than following the rules, or where exploiting a system in ways that contravene it’s purpose forced us to consider there to be a flaw in the exploiter, the system or the purpose itself.

YES

Although in Anarchist communities I am seeing a lot of communities struggling with how to balance the spontaneous creating and dissolving of organisation, with uninterrupted mutual aid where no one gets left behind. I haven’t found an answer to that yet.