The rusty law of oligarchy
Channel: ItHadToBeSaid
Date: 2024-04-06

First, everything right and wrong with elitism and the highly influential “Iron Law of Oligarchy”; then, how you can organize as equals, without oligarchy or hierarchy.

0:00 intro to oligarchy
3:01 Mosca
4:50 Michels
7:48 The limits of elite theory
9:55 Organizing without hierarchy

Sources: 

The Ruling Class by Gaetano Mosca (I suggest accessing this and all other books I cite on this channel through https://zlibrary-ca.se/, http://libgen.is/, https://www.pdfdrive.com/, or, like, a library)

Political Parties by Robert Michels

Deciding for Ourselves by Cindy Milstein

Mutual Aid by Dean Spade

How to organize (not just mobilize): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfJNbCBqYV8 

Horizontalism: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mark-bray-horizontalism and its limits: https://libcom.org/article/anarchists-and-neo-anarchists-horizontalism-and-autonomous-spaces, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrew-flood-an-anarchist-critique-of-horizontalism

A transcript of this video is available at https://theruleoffreedom.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/the-rusty-law-of-oligarchy/