#leaderless — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #leaderless, aggregated by home.social.
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"The #resistance to #ICE in #Minneapolis is strong, generalized, and sustained. It’s also entirely #decentralized and #leaderless (or “leaderful” if you’d like). There are roles. There is #organizing—there’s so much organizing. There are so many organizers, from so many #communities and identities.
This, of course, makes my heart happy.
It’s also, I’m certain, frustrating as hell for the #Federal #occupation of the city. They want to pick off a few people and bring them up on charges. That might still happen, but it will be a farce of a trial. If there’s a conspiracy, it’s the entire city conspiring to be free. ... This is a #rebellion against what amounts to foreign occupation."
https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/from-minneapolis-ive-never-seen-unity
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"One challenge to defining the #leaderless #left is its sheer amorphousness. Another is that few would actively identify with the term. (Many activists prefer to call their movements “decentralized.”) Broadly defined, though, the leaderless left might be said to have a deep-rooted suspicion of leaders and personalities.
We may be sliding into a new age — one of #personalityexhaustion, in the words of the culture writer Mo Diggs."
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#Leaderless organisations (think fediverse, you geeks) can only work when they fight for goals that are common sense and accepted by many. And even then there will always be folks who want to become the sole hero of the movement and will try to divide et impera (divide and conquer). There are only a very, very few exceptions where common goals "made it" without "heroes". The risk however is huge. Every hero *will* fail. Humans are not perfect. Ideas can be. That's the dilemma of every new idea.
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I for one actually prefer a #Leaderless #FOSS movement. Bound by principles of software Freedom we all defend and fight for. I don’t need heroes for that.
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South/South-East/East Asian active solidarity among horizontally organised "leaderless"[1] protest groups now has an official popular name!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_Tea_Alliance
Next protests?
Cambodia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%932014_Cambodian_protests
Vietnam? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Vietnam_protests
Laos? ...
[1] The mainstream media won't say "anarchist" to describe horizontally organised protest groups, but will allow itself to say #leaderless. Imagine how silly #leaderlessism would sound...
