#horizontalidad

(Esp) Por mi y por todos mis compañeros. Solidaridad - Esfuerzo - Horizontalidad.

Feminists, we can learn a lot from the Horizontalidad movement

here's a link to a pdf of a book that directly quotes interviews with many people about how Horizontalidad has been transforming movement in Venezuela

(ESP) Aguiluchos. Luchadores de la libertad. Solidaridad - Organización - Autodisciplina - Horizontalidad.

(La Columna Los Aguiluchos de la FAI, o Aguiluchos, fue la última de las grandes columnas anarquistas catalanas, en entrar en la lucha de la guerra civil española.)

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(ESP) Eaglets. Freedom fighters. Solidarity - Organization - Self-discipline - Horizontality.

No one was obeying some ideological command. People simply met on a street corner in their neighborhood, with other neighbors who had par­ticipated in the cacerolazos. For example, in my assembly, in the neigh­ borhood of Colegiales-and I know many other cases-someone simply wrote on the sidewalk, in chalk, "Ncighbur let's meet here Thursday night. " Period. Who wrote this ? No one knows. In the first meeting there were maybe fifteen people, and by the next week it was triple that. Why did it increase in this way? It wasn't an ideological de­ cision, or an intel­ lectual, academic, or political one. It's like asking why people went out to cacerolas. It was the most spontaneous and elemental thing, to go out in the street and meet others on the corner. It isn't that there was a deci­sion to be horizontal--it's not that there was a decision to use direct democracy as if someone had just thought it up. It wasn't a decision. We simply came together with a powerful rejection of all we knew. A strong rejection of political parties and their structures, a strong rejection of all those who represented the state or who wanted to occupy positions in the state. We made a specific decision that we are going to do things for ourselves. 

To understand this phenomenon requires more than calling it " direct democracy." Naming it is an interpretation. To call this new relationship direct democracy is technically correct, but "direct democracy" wasn't in people's vocabulary back then. The initial vocabulary was simply: Let's do things for ourselves, and do them right. Let's decide for ourselves. Let's decide democratically, and if we do, then let's explicitly agree that we're all equal here, that there are no bosses, that we don't want bosses, and that no one can lead us. We lead ourselves. We lead together. We lead and decide amongst ourselves. Someone said, this is horizontal, and well, yes this is horizontal because it's not vertical. We don't want bosses, and because of this it isn't vertical, but it isn't part of any theory of hori­zontalidad or direct democracy. Like the cacerolazo, no one invented it. That was a way to protest. It just happened. We met one another on the corner and decided, enough! Enough of this, let's start everything anew. Let's invent new organizational forms and reinvent society. "

224.-Me pregunta Emma: “¿Sabes cómo se hacen los descubrimientos?” “¿Cuáles?” “Los científicos, los artísticos” “Nunca me he planteado esa cuestión” “Yo sí”.

Me quedo mirándola expectante. En vista de que ha callado, la animo a seguir hablando. “No se hacen a través de la lógica ni de la razón” “De la razón lógica” “Me he expresado con propiedad: de ninguna lógica ni de ninguna razón. Los caminos…