Coordination without unity strengthens political movements

Evidence

The answer of course is that many groups are already doing what is necessary. But these processes will become more powerful when they are logistically coordinated (which is not to say “unified” — unity is a strategic weakness, not a strength) and bound together by stronger common narratives and fictions. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1875

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the horizontal-network debates in the reader’s work on base opposition movements (diverse motivations, rarely unified) and on trust literature. — connects to: Spanish 2011 protesters organized horizontally with consensus-based assemblies — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 261; Local protest movements can aggregate into a national politics without top-down coordination — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 620; Political unity is strengthened rather than weakened by divergent attentions — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 347 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Left solidarity requires heterogeneous coalition rather than unity or horizontalism #expands (0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1743
• Political unity is strengthened rather than weakened by divergent attentions #corroborates (0.88) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 347
• Polycentric commons movements coordinate without central authority through shared goals #exemplifies (0.85) — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 96
• Local protest movements can aggregate into a national politics without top-down coordination #corroborates (0.82) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 620
• Leaderless movements that cede representation get represented by opponents #complicates (0.78) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 443
• Prefigurative politics holds that movement structure should mirror desired society #qualifies (0.72) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 82