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[waterspyder]

Fuck grassroots.

I mean that.

Grassroots Initiatives only serve to keep people from getting organized.

Yeah, it's great in the beginning when everyone in the group are friends, but you get over 10 people, it's all over.

Everyone's trying to preach equality, and no one is allowed to be in "charge" and next thing you know, there's more fucking committee meetings to have a goddamn bakesale than it takes to pass a bill in parliament.

Sometimes it's tricky, but successful models have leaders and figureheads. They'll even admit to their clique behaviour.

So fuck grassroots and led someone drive the damn movement.

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[corradus.livejournal.com]

"You do not share command"

Robert Heinlein
Starship Troopers

[panthertriad.livejournal.com]

and true communism fails yet again... Hurrah!

[twiin.livejournal.com]

Grassroots organizations are not disorganized by definition. It sounds like you have a problem with disorganized people who happen to be running grassroots initiatives more than you have a problem with the grassroots model.

Lateral organization is a perfectly workable and valid alternative to traditional vertical organization, even on a large scale. (See the anarcho-syndicalist collective that managed things during the Spanish Civil War).

The problem isn't grassroots, the problem is people who don't know that 'equality' and 'organization' aren't mutually exclusive.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you've hit it pretty well bang on.

It also boggles my mind why organizations turn down "free money" from sponsors. Just learn to accept it on your own terms.

[twiin.livejournal.com]

...or at the very least, use it to combat the problem which prevents you from wanting to accept it in the first place.

Offered a sponsorship by Halliburton? Take it and give 75% to Greenpeace.