Don't you know that any potential leader is probably just a grifter? If you want to build an effective leftist movement, you have to have no leaders whatsoever. Directionless resentment is surely the only way forward.
Don't you know that any potential leader is probably just a grifter? If you want to build an effective leftist movement, you have to have no leaders whatsoever. Directionless resentment is surely the only way forward.
Folks like to forget that capitalism works as an organizational structure. It's practitioners dominate physical space and productive materials, mobilize large amounts of human labor, and generate significant new economic value.
This is also what Communists want to do. They want a different social relationship between participants, not a Return To Monke.
Animals periodically reorganize their hierarchies, even branching into entirely different structures, over time. Humans absolutely have the capacity to advance past tribal organizations, city-states, kingdoms, and empires or regress back into hermitage. Social organization doesn't have to be rigidly vertical. But you do still need some level of respect between participants such that instruction from one individual is not endlessly countervailed by others.
I think it's easy to neglect that the basis of hierarchy isn't brutality. It is trust. A hierarchy built on trust can be healthy and good, if the participants are well-informed and the relationship is fruitful. Constant cynicism and doubt isn't any kind of basis for any kind of leftist philosophy, nevermind the Social Animals argument.