Dwindling attendance exposes horizontalism’s membership question

Evidence

The cabildos had never really known what to do with the decisions made by their collectives, and now they didn’t know what to do with dwindling interest. They were confronting one of the tough questions that often arise from horizontalist practices, identified by thinkers like Paolo Gerbaudo in the middle of the decade: How do you decide who is in, and who is not? If a lot of working-class people stop showing up, are they still a part of it? Is the cabildo just as legitimate? — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 811

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Leaders and hierarchies inevitably emerge in large groups regardless of horizontalist ideals — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 901; Awareness of group membership differs from desire for that membership; Member participation emerges from ideology and culture, not structure alone — Adrian Josef Amon, Organizing the study of degeneration…, 83

Broader Connections

• Leaders and hierarchies inevitably emerge in large groups regardless of horizontalist ideals #expands (0.80) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 901
• Awareness of group membership differs from desire for that membership #expands (0.75)
• Member participation emerges from ideology and culture, not structure alone #expands (0.72) — Adrian Josef Amon, Organizing the study of degeneration…, 83