this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
25 points (87.9% liked)
Anarchism
2144 readers
23 users here now
Discuss anarchist praxis and philosophy. Don't take yourselves too seriously.
Other anarchist comms
- !anarchism@slrpnk.net
- !anarchism@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !anarchism@hexbear.net
- !anarchism@lemmy.ml
- !anarchism101@lemmy.ca
- !flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Join the matrix room for some real-time discussion.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The fundamental question is not simply what a "leader" is, but also what a "follower" is - both are active roles that require agency.
We can make this a lot easier for ourselves if we identify and reject the authoritarian and hierarchical baggage that the word "leader" has been hamstrung with. Once we do, we can simply redefine, for ourselves, what the terms "leader" and "follower" mean in ways that actually makes sense in a non-hierarchical context.
Bosses and managers do not lead - you can accuse them of plenty of things, but leading isn't one of them. The corporate world, in fact, absolutely hates leadership ability in every kind of way possible, and the reason is really not that hard to see. Corporations run on the same kind of toadyism you find in the political party world - absolute loyalty to the people above them in the corporate hierarchy, not responsibility to the people below them.
Any concept of "leadership" that emerges from these worlds deserves to be rejected out of hand.
Have you ever read 'bullshit jobs' by david graeber?
Yes. I did not find it all that interesting - perhaps because I've never lived or worked in the imperial core.
Debt: The First 5000 Years was much better.
That one was fucking amazing. That man could write.