September Reading Group - Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization -- Rodrigo Nunes

How do we organize in a world after both Occupy and the Sanders campaign?

For something so often described as essential, political organisation remains a surprisingly under-theorised field.

Nunes redefines the terms of organisational theory, and argues that organisation must be understood as always supposing a diverse ecology of different initiatives and organisational forms. Drawing from a wide array of sources and traditions Nunes develops a grammar that eschews easy oppositions between ‘verticalism’ and ‘horizontalism’, and offers a fresh approach to enduring issues like spontaneity, leadership, democracy, strategy, populism, revolution, and the relationship between movements and parties.

We will be reading primarily the introduction, chapters 1, 5, 6, 7, and the conclusion. That is, we will be omitting chapters 2, 3, and 4.

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