a collective is essentially a limitation on its authority. By contrast, large organizations, while having open membership, are exclusive in terms of who shapes the politics and actively participates in the structuring of activities. The choice is between joining the mass or creating the class. The revolutionary project is to do it yourself. Remember. Alexandra Kollontai warned in 1920, ‘The essence of bureaucracy is when some third person decides your fate.”
the strength of a collective lies in its social organization not its numbers.
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