Anarchic Agreements

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English language

Published Nov. 11, 2022 by PM Press.

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978-1-62963-978-9
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A new world is possible and not just in our hearts. Anarchic Agreements is a quintessential field guide for the revolution, answering the practical questions often left out of works of political theory and philosophy. How do leaderless groups organize? How might they create constitutions, balance power and write protocols? How do group cultures and institutions maintain coalitions? This urgent and inspiring how-to is the product of more than twenty years of research. Designed explicitly for everyday use, it contains lived examples and text from current horizontally organized constitutions. These documents illustrate the never-ending process of developing community and keeping collaborations alive in the fairest ways possible. Written by dedicated anarchist scholars and organizers, and based on the widely popular Anarchic Agreements pamphlet series, this book facilitates grassroots activism and provides methods to improve and streamline decision making. It is an inspiring celebration of the novel, complex, and flexible constitutions …

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reviewed Anarchic Agreements by Ruth Kinna

Practical pamphlet for constitutionalizing

This is a short, easily understandable guide aimed at horizontalist groups. Prefigurative, not prescriptive, with lot's of relatable examples, and at the end a large appendix of constitutional documents historical and modern to gain inspiration from.

I am glad this exists! It makes the case for building lasting structures, institutions, and that governance (via constitution) is a strong support to that.

There are times where I wish it was a bit more prescriptive, and had a more positive light on leadership and specializing which I now believe to be not only inevitable, but actively desirable.

Overall, a lot of good common sense for organizing, and a great entry for people who are newer to governance.

reviewed Anarchic Agreements by Ruth Kinna

Tips bastante prácticos

Esta es una excelente guía general sobre cuestiones organizativas. Para quienes no hayan tenido mucha experiencia o quienes tengan alguna es bueno comprender los fundamentos de una buena organización, sobre todo si es social o política.

Cuenta con una sección con ejemplos concretos de diferentes movimientos y organizaciones, con preguntas clave y muchas sugerencias útiles.

Muchas veces nos enfrascamos demasiado en aspectos ideales, teóricos o ideológicos, pero siempre es bueno refrescarse con lecturas muy prácticas.

reviewed Anarchic Agreements by Ruth Kinna

Anarchic Agreements

Anarchic Agreements is a non-fiction how-to book about organizing in leaderless groups. It focuses on creating explicit "consensual, changeable, and conscious" agreements (via constitutionalizing), ways to make coalition building between groups more effective, and various examples of declarations and statements, and finally a few worksheets. I wish there were some more small examples (A group had B problem and discussed in C way which resulted in D changes) but for a short book there's only so much it can do.

For me personally (who doesn't have a lot of extra background in this sort of thing), this was a much more thorough follow-up answer to the concerns of The Tyranny of Structurelessness in that it presented many questions to ask to interrogate about how decisions are made, how to communicate, and how to make sure to reduce barriers and think about power differences between members in a group.