Not sure how relevant, but this reminds me of stories from inside Valve, the noted semi-anarchistly-organized game developer. People can move to any project they want, and there are few/no formal position titles. However, some employees have basically said that, because decision-making is sorta by consensus and some people have seniority and people can organize informally anyway, the result is a “shadow clique/cabal” that has disproportionate power. Which, come to think of it, would probably happen in the average anarchist commune of sufficient size.
TLDR just because the cliques don’t exist formally, doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
Not sure how relevant, but this reminds me of stories from inside Valve, the noted semi-anarchistly-organized game developer. People can move to any project they want, and there are few/no formal position titles. However, some employees have basically said that, because decision-making is sorta by consensus and some people have seniority and people can organize informally anyway, the result is a “shadow clique/cabal” that has disproportionate power. Which, come to think of it, would probably happen in the average anarchist commune of sufficient size.
TLDR just because the cliques don’t exist formally, doesn’t mean they don’t exist.