I daresay the anarchists may have happened upon the problem of human group dynamics. :)
--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Tayssir John Gabbour <tayssir.john at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> "What I never understand about 'the anarchist
> left' is that, while
> this is obvious to anyone with any experience of such
> structures,
> as one arm of the communist movement we favour
> prefigurative mass
> organisation, but many of those who ascribe to some our
> precepts
> end up pushing very rigidly hierarchical structures
> that most
> Trot, and even Stalinist groups would consider derisory
> in terms
> of their lack of accountability, lack of cohesion, lack
> of
> collective discipline, lack of member control and so
> on. I despair
> of it. For all that you can slag social democrats like
> the SSP or
> CWI, at least they elect their executive.
> "Our" leadership is
> self-selecting, cliquey, and authoritarian, and our
> groups are
> full of unrealistic liberals who object to the least
> amount of
> accountability."
>