In the article Are the Cops in Our Heads and Hearts?, author Paula X. Rojas highlights two Latin American social movements, the Zapatistas and the MST, that demonstrate horizontal decision making can be done on a mass scale. Why, then, does the assumption persist in the American Left imagination that collective and horizontal organizing structures are inefficient and/or work only for local organizing projects of projects that are small in scope? Is it a result of NGO ideology imposed by its formal structure and funding sources? Or does it have to do with a fundamental difference in the material situation of American organizing that is different from Latin America? Eric Tang evokes Makani Themba Nixons concept of burn out which includes not only those who failed to pace themselves and in the end ran out of gas, but also to those who during their days in various revolutionary parties and collectives, were burned by internal political processes and abuses of institutional authority... in his piece Non-Profits and the Autonomous Grassroots. This, they claim, is one of the reasons some organizers, especially women, may have turned to other organizing models including Non-Profits. Does this added dimension of analysis change the way we think about and critique the NPIC?
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:36:45 +0000
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