“We want democracy, but we don’t have the theory or skill to do it”

A lot of traditional organizing skills have just been forgotten. It’s interesting to think of how we got to where we are and see similar mistakes being made over and over and over.  If you go back to the 1930s and 1940s, organizers were … organized. There were structures and titles and tasks. And hierarchies. And dues that people paid. A lot of that stuff has just been eroded…