Anarchic Agreements

How to Build Durable Groups and Coalitions

No cover

Ruth Kinna, Thomas Swann, Alex Prichard, Seeds for Seeds for Change: Anarchic Agreements (2022, PM Press)

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2022 by PM Press.

ISBN:
978-1-62963-963-5
Copied ISBN!

View on OpenLibrary

4 stars (1 review)

2 editions

Anarchic Agreements

4 stars

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.